• autumn
• capturing moments in photos
• everything blue (my favourite colour)
• hearing my favourite songs for the first time after a long time
• inside jokes
• my cats
• my family
• my friends
• nice strangers
• nostalgia
• old people
• people I have something in common with
• quirky people
• rain
• reading
• secret smiles
• spending time with my family
• sweaters, especially striped ones
• the smell of old books
• army boots and brogue like shoes

• The Book Thief
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Norwegian Wood
• To the Lighthouse
• Moominvalley in November
• The Naked Heart
• The Years
• The Secret Garden
• The Little Prince

• coffee
• lilacs
• the scent of sun on skin and hair
• nature after rain
• moss
• the scent of earth in spring, especially after rain
• grass
• the scent of autumn
• bittersweet wild apples
• home baked carrot bread
• rose water

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." — Vincent Van Gogh

"When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything." — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"To be understood is to prostitute yourself." — Fernando Pessoa

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance." — Osho

"I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for s...__— Fyodor Dostoyevsky__

• A Little Princess
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lolita
• Never Let Me Go
• Norwegian Wood
• The Secret Garden
• The Virgin Suicides

• autumn leaves
• books
• memories
• moments captured in words and photographs
• notebooks filled with words
• old keys
• persian rugs
• tea
• vintage jars and tins
• old black & white photographs
• vintage suitcases
• old glass bottles

• continuous inspiration
• courage to face my absurd fears in which stop me from doing all the things I want in life
• perpetual, or at least longer, autumn
• to accept myself as I am
• to become happy
• to become a better person

• 500 Days of Summer
• Amelié
• Anything by Studio Ghibli
• Control
• Destined to Witness
• Everything is Illuminated
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Harry Potter septology
• Lost in Translation
• Marie Antoinette
• Pirates of the Caribbean film series
• Stardust
• Tea with Mussolini
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Vicky Christina Barcelona

• coffee
• herbal tea
• bittersweet wild apples
• home baked carrot bread
• dark rye bread with butter, cheese, ham, avokado, cucumber and tomato
• smoked salmon
• sparkling wine
• homemade blueberry pie
• chinese and thai food
• feta cheese
• homemade ham pie
• apple juice
• the iron-y taste of blood

• the sound of typewriting
• tapping your fingers against book covers
• silence
• my two cats' very different meows
• piano
• rain and storms
• turning a page (a book, a newspaper)
• the singing of birds and the way their singing changes through out seasons
• writing with a pencil
• ocean waves
• the soft murmur of a bus (when daydreaming on a bus trip)
• the making of coffee

• Annette Pehrsson
• Tina Sosna
• Anna Kharina
• Geneviève Bjargardóttir
• Margarita Sizikova