• Lost in Translation
• My Blueberry Nights
• The Wind in the Willows (1998 Australian version)
• Annie Hall
• Office Space
• Lost in America
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• The Fugitive
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Apollo 13
• Walk the Line
• Erin Brockovich
• Moonrise Kingdom

"Maybe that’s just growing up. When you’re young, you tell yourself things like “Well, if it didn’t work out, it wasn’t meant to be” as if that actually meant something just because it sounds like it does. I think you can say something like that so blithely because you expect to stumble onto something else just as wonderful just around the next bend in the road. But people are rare perfect unique things and just because everyone really does live a life full of farewells doesn’t mean you shouldn’t at least realize what it really means to say goodbye to something that meant everything. Just because you WILL survive and get over it doesn’t mean you should let it go." — Adam Duritz

"I just think people are complex. It’s no deep thing. I just think there are motivations that you have which come with doubts about those motivations and there ar...

• The Glass Castle
• Norwegian Wood
• The Hobbit
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Anne of Green Gables
• Eating Animals
• Franny and Zooey
• The Bell Jar
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

• New York City
• Brooklyn
• Annecy
• Albertville
• Paris
• Boston
• San Diego
• Bastia

• Allen Ginsberg - Howl and other Poems
• Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
• Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
• Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
• Henry James - Daisy Miller
• James Joyce - Dubliners
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
• Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
• Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
• Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
• Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
• According to the Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood

• Cook
• Bake
• Exercise
• Practice français
• Try to learn another language
• Read a book en français
• Learn how to program (HTML/CSS, python, java, PHP?)
• Write a letters/emails to Bailey and Cathy
• Read articles on my Google reader feed
• Edit all the photos I haven’t edited yet
• Look at maps

• "If you take care of yourself, everything else takes care of itself."
• "This is all yours for the taking. It depends on how much you want it."
• "There's no weakness in forgiveness."
• "Life is going to throw a bunch of crap at you, but all you can do is put it in the past and leave it there."
• "Go all the way."
• "Life's harder when you really love someone."
• "Gentlemen, we get better or we get worse every day. Let's get a little better today."
• I said you need to STRIVE to be better, I didn't say you need to BE better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the trying."

• All the President's Men
• Amélie
• An Affair to Remember
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Dances with Wolves
• Fight Club
• His Girl Friday
• The Breakfast Club
• Thelma and Louise

Favorite Hemingway quotes.

• "I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
• "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
• "There is no friend as loyal as a book."
• "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
• "I drink to make other people more interesting."
• "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places...