• Secondhand Lions
• How Do You Know
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Pride and Prejudice
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• A Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• After the Quake and The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• For Esmé – with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

• Elephant Parade/ Peer Pressure
• It's Always You - Chet Baker
• Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

• Bombay Bicycle Club
• Death Cab For Cutie
• Coldplay
• Bon Iver
• The Lumineers
• Young the Giant
• Stars
• Camera Obscura
• She and Him
• Sea Wolf
• Tennis

"Now, with your hand in mine The heat strikes me as divine Seated here by my side The day goes into the night How is it you seem to know what I try not to show This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of"

• "I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” ―Shana Abe
• “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” ―Haruki Murakami
• "If you want to make someone cry, make them think of every person who hurt them. If you want to destroy someone, make them think of every person who they have hurt."
• "And the sea is just a wetter version of ...

• The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• 500 Days of Summer
• Closer
• Love Actually
• ✔ Like Crazy
• Paris Je'taime
• P.S. I Love You
• Atonement
• ✔ Pride and Prejudice
• Bright Star
• The Duchess
• Marie Antoinette
• ✔ Hugo
• Broken English
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Once
• Moonrise Kingdom

• "Snow" by Ann Beattie
• "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
• "The Overcoat" by Gogol
• "In a Bamboo Grove" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
• "newborn thrown in trash and dies" by John Edgar Wideman
• "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
• "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood
• South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
• Why Don't You Dance?" by Raymond Carver