• The Public Diary
• Le Portillon
• *misslittlelime
• So much to tell you
• La Mignonette
• Dead Fleurette
• A Girl, A Style
• oh, hello there
• Badlands
• Into the Gloss
• Lolitas
• capture the castle

• heliacal—‘pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.’
• apogee—‘the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth.’
• whinging—‘to complain; whine.’
• owlish—‘resembling or characteristic of an owl.’
• surreptitious—‘obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine.’
• warble—‘to sing (an aria or other selection) with trills, quavers, or melodious turns.’

• Winter 1972: ‘A field of untouched new fallen snow, hand knit woolen mittens covered with frost, a hint of frozen forest & sleeping earth’
• Walking in the Air: ‘Narnia in the Winter, the Waltz of the Snowflakes, or perhaps just the fond memories of Snow Days away from School, the smell of Snow is one of the most beautiful things I can think of...’
• To See a Flower: ‘Delicate spring flowers (hyacinth, daffodils, jonquils & crocuses), green shoots, wet dirt & a bit of moss’
• Mr. Hulot’s Holiday: ‘The salty breath of the breeze off the Mediterranean, driftwood, rocks covered with seaweed and the smell of old leather suitcases’
• M3 November: ‘Pumpkin Pie, Fallen Apples, Bonfire, Wood Smoke, Dried Grass, Fallen Leaves, Wet Branches, Damp Moss, Chant...

the grass is greener where it rains [http://8tracks.com/astronomy/the-grass-i...]

• Eve, The Apple of My Eye – Bell X1
• Falling Slowly – The Frames
• Asleep – The Smiths
• Re: Stacks – Bon Iver
• Someday You Will Be Loved – Death Cab for Cutie
• I’ll Try Anything Once – The Strokes
• Twilight – Elliott Smith
• Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime – Beck

are they all just scared of their dreams?[http://8tracks.com/astronomy/are-they-al...]

• Cosmic Love – Florence and the Machine
• Only If You Run – Julian Plenti
• Daisy – Brand New
• The Funeral – Band of Horses
• Public Pervert – Interpol
• Closer – Kings of Leon
• Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I ...

• almond
• apple pie
• birthday cake
• bonfire
• bubble gum
• Christmas in New York
• crayon
• dirt
• firefly
• fireplace
• fresh hay
• frozen pond
• gardenia
• gingerbread
• golden delicious
• graham cracker
• grass
• Hello Kitty
• laundromat
• My Melody
• orange cream pop

• the Harry Potter series
• I Capture the Castle
• Lolita
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Never Let Me Go
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Ballet Shoes
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Harry, A History
• Fight Club
• The Haunting of Hill House
• White Oleander
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• Franny and Zooey
• Wuthering Heights
• St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
• The Virgin Suicides
• Le Petit Prince
• My Sister’s Keeper
• His Dark Materials

• The X-Files
• Friends
• Twin Peaks
• Lost
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Gilmore Girls
• Seinfeld
• Merlin
• Doctor Who
• Pretty Little Liars

• Emma by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
• Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• The Mitfords by Charlotte Mosley
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

• Paul Banks
• Alan Rickman
• Michael C Hall
• Christoph Waltz
• Jesse Lacey
• Daniel Radcliffe
• Matt Berninger
• Ian Curtis
• Thom Yorke

• a typewriter
• Fjallraven Kanken
• Philosophy’s Pure Grace eau de parfum
• Chloé eau de toilette
• iPhone
• MacBook
• Gryffindor scarf
• Time Turner
• Hogwarts acceptance letter
• I ♥ NY mug
• Penguin book mugs
• Kubrick’s Lolita poster
• Le Petit Prince poster
• Bookmarc pencil crayons
• essie’s French Affair
• essie’s top and base coat
• Chanel Le Vernis
• UK miniatures (red telephone box, double decker bus, taxi, Big Ben, etc.)
• NY Transit Museum subway signs
• Diptyque Paris candle

• Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
• The next morning I told Mom I couldn’t go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same thing that’s always wrong.” “You’re sick?” “...

• the Harry Potter series (2001-2011)
• The Ring (2002)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Never Let Me Go (2010)
• You’ve Got Mail (1998)
• White Oleander (2002)
• Somewhere (2010)
• Marie Antoinette (2006)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Ballet Shoes (2007)
• Matilda (1996)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• A Little Princess (1995)
• The Parent Trap (1998)
• 500 Days of Summer (2009)
• Juno (2007)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Up (2009)
• Amélie (2001)

• Dexter
• The Office
• Criminal Minds

• An Education (2009)
• Zazie dans le métro (1960)
• Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Jeux d’enfants (2003)
• Paris, je t’aime (2006)
• My One and Only (2009)
• Jane Eyre (2011)
• Super 8 (2011)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• I Capture the Castle (2003)
• The Piano (1993)
• Bright Star (2009)

• pale pink
• mint green
• baby yellow
• pastel purple
• grey
• periwinkle
• powder blue
• light peach
• gold
• Tiffany blue
• bright purple
• peachy-pink
• violet-pink
• red
• white
• emerald green
• twilight blue

• Philosophy’s Pure Grace and Baby Grace
• coffee
• woodsmoke
• Play-Doh
• launderettes
• new books
• blown-out candles
• crayons
• vanilla
• cinnamon
• rain
• hot chocolate
• toast
• gardenia
• newly mown grass
• bakeries
• dirt, earth, sand, rocks
• Dubble Bubble gum
• L’Oréal Kids shampoo
• Johnson’s baby shampoo
• Ivory’s lavender body wash

• Perhaps I imagined it, but I always felt an aftershock to that question, the secret nudge of the real question underneath: they were really asking me what we as Harry Potter fans planned on doing after Harry Potter. Whether we had anything in our lives besides a children’s book series—how we planned to gather up the fragments of our lives—whether we had even existed before there were Harry Potter books to read. I was tempted to tell them that I hadn’t. That before I read Harry Potter I was composed of magic dust and fairy breath, and reading the first book had been what brought all my particles together. That Harry Potter was my personal Big Bang.
• I ran a hand across the cover in the cheesy way people do when they look at albums in Hallmark commercials, then scurried back to sit against the wall, and opened t...

• Interpol
• The National
• Brand New
• Elliott Smith
• The Decemberists
• Florence and the Machine
• The Smiths
• Modest Mouse
• Wolf Parade
• The Libertines
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• The Strokes
• David Bowie
• Bob Dylan
• The Cure
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Julian Plenti
• Grizzly Bear
• Bon Iver
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Damien Rice