• Perfect weather for SISAC
• The bus ride back from SAS Pudong with Kelly, Kate, & Ingrid and our creepiness
• realizing that Jared Padalecki is both Sam from Supernatural AND Dean from Gilmore Girls, freaking out to Katie about it (she knew all along), then fangirling and proceeding to hunt for gilmore girls DVDs and watch gilmore girls for four hours and start downloading all the episodes.
• having a smiley monday, raging with Emily Larson, and Da's comment about middle school teachers not understanding his sarcastic insults hahahha :)
• rolling around the house in Ma's electric wheelchair with the funny little horn
• having a smiley bike ride to school tuesday & thinking of all my funny moments while laughing to myself, and then seeing Ma in her electric wheelchair going down the sidewalk with Da & then laughing hyster...

• This whole town will hear your knuckles crack.

• start my own charity and/or sustainable business like sweetgreen or TOMs
• start a book exchange or a chain of book exchange stations (even if it's just one on my lawn)
• be an intern at NPR/The Smithsonian/National Geographic/Kiva or work at or with them in some way.

• “The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.”

— Billy Graham

• "things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"- John Wooden

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Fault in Our Stars- John Green
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
• Amy & Roger's Epic Detour- Morgan Matson
• The Future of Us- Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children-Ransom Riggs

• Inception
• The King's Speech
• The Source Code
• The Help
• Midnight in Paris
• We Need To Talk About Kevin
• Donnie Darko
• Star Trek
• Pride & Prejudice
• Third Star
• Girl, Interrupted
• The Hunger Games
• Love & Other Drugs
• X-Men: First Class
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• What A Girl Wants
• Bridget Jones's Diary