fragments of art, literature, and people that have touched, stayed with, or changed me in their own little ways; each holding a special place in my heart,

and forever a work in progress.

 
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“A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine.” - Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror.

“A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine.” - Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror.

Angie McMahon, “Letting Go”

Banshees of Inisherin, Dir: Martin McDonagh, 2022. “Some things there's no moving on from. And I think that's a good thing.”

Banshees of Inisherin, Dir: Martin McDonagh, 2022.

“Some things there's no moving on from. And I think that's a good thing.”

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” - Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton.

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” - Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton.

Open House for Butterflies, Ruth Krauss, 1960.

Open House for Butterflies, Ruth Krauss, 1960.

Swan Song , Dir: Todd Stephens, 2021.

Swan Song, Dir: Todd Stephens, 2021.

Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn.

Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn.

“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.” - Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan.

“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.” -Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan.

“As It Was” music video by Harry Styles, 2023.

“As It Was” music video by Harry Styles, 2023.

Federer & The Master by Christopher Clarey

Federer

&

The Master by Christopher Clarey

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

“How to Fail with Elizabeth Day” (podcast)

“How to Fail with Elizabeth Day” (podcast)

Chef, Dir: Jon Favreau, 2014.

Chef, Dir: Jon Favreau, 2014.

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Justin Peck

The Times are Racing

Moonee: You know why this is my favorite tree? Jancey: Why? Moonee: 'Cause it's tipped over, and it's still growing. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)

Moonee: You know why this is my favorite tree?

Jancey: Why?

Moonee: 'Cause it's tipped over, and it's still growing.

The Florida Project (Sean Baker)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)

"You have to look in the mirror and see yourself.” Iris (Albert Maysles)

"You have to look in the mirror and see yourself.”

Iris (Albert Maysles)

A Very Easy Death , Simone de Beauvoir

A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller (Italo Calvino)

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller (Italo Calvino)

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bal, Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2010

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

The Paris Review

The Paris Review

And Our Faces My Heart, Brief as Photos , John Berger

And Our Faces My Heart, Brief as Photos, John Berger

Sky Ladder

Artwork by Cai Guo Qiang

Film by Kevin Macdonald

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“ nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know… ” When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chödrön)

“nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…”

When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chödrön)

“This Is Water” (David Foster Wallace)

“This Is Water” (David Foster Wallace)

#GucciFest Episode 3: “At The Post Office” - Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended,

Dir: Gus Van Sant & Alessandro Michele.

Soul , Dir: Pete Docter & Kemp Powers, 2020.

Soul, Dir: Pete Docter & Kemp Powers, 2020.

A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)

A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” Fran Lebowitz

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

Fran Lebowitz

“ Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there’s the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in th

“Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there’s the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble.”

Things That Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living (Mark Nepo)

The Bridget Jones series

The Bridget Jones series

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Agua Viva , Clarice Lispector

Agua Viva, Clarice Lispector

Just Kids , Patti Smith

Just Kids, Patti Smith

Normal People (Sally Rooney)

Normal People (Sally Rooney)

The Idiot , Elif Batuman

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Apartamento Magazine

Apartamento Magazine

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

Portrait of a Lady on Fire , Dir: Céline Sciamma, 2019.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Dir: Céline Sciamma, 2019.

“ Karma is choice. ” Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)

“Karma is choice.”

Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)

“Knowing Me, Knowing You” (Angie McMahon’s cover of ABBA)

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Ma Vie de Courgette (Claude Barras)

Frantz (François Ozon)

Frantz (François Ozon)

Cat's Cradle ( Kurt Vonnegut)

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

" This is the really hard part, and then it gets better, and then it gets hard again." 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

"This is the really hard part, and then it gets better, and then it gets hard again."

20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

"Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”  The BFG (Roald Dahl)

"Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.” 

The BFG (Roald Dahl)

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

"Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too." Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

"Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too."

Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

"The Blue of Distance"  , A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Rebecca Solnit)

"The Blue of Distance" , A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Rebecca Solnit)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

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Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner)

Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner)

The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)

The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)

This is Water (David Foster Wallace)

This is Water (David Foster Wallace)

Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)

A Ghost Story (David Lowery), "A writer writes a novel, a songwriter writes a song, we do what we can to endure."

A Ghost Story (David Lowery), "A writer writes a novel, a songwriter writes a song, we do what we can to endure."

The Squid and the Whale   (Noah Baumbach)

The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)

"George: I had a wonderful time. Ben: Me too." Love Is Strange  (Ira Sachs)

"George: I had a wonderful time.

Ben: Me too."

Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)

"I used to sleep on a lambswool beanbag next to an electric space heater, that's my territory. I'm an indoor dog." Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

"I used to sleep on a lambswool beanbag next to an electric space heater, that's my territory. I'm an indoor dog."

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

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Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

"Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere." Ratatouille  (Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava)

"Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere."

Ratatouille (Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava)

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." Grim Grotto, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."

Grim Grotto, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)

Invisible Cities ( Italo Calvino)

Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell)

The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)

The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)

La Tortue Rouge (Michaël Dudok de Wit)

La Tortue Rouge (Michaël Dudok de Wit)

This Is Home (Alexandra Shiva)

This Is Home (Alexandra Shiva)

Icarus (Bryan Fogel)

Icarus (Bryan Fogel)

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Demian (Hermann Hesse)

Demian (Hermann Hesse)

The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Anaïs Nin)

The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Anaïs Nin)

PINA (Wim Wenders)

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)

"you need to live a simple life simple, as if your life is going to end one day. with tea, bread, and cheese..." (Nâzım Hikmet Ran)

"you need to live a simple life

simple, as if your life is going to end one day.

with tea, bread, and cheese..."

(Nâzım Hikmet Ran)

"I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing." The Descendants (Alexander Payne)

"I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing."

The Descendants (Alexander Payne)

Boy (Roald Dahl)

Boy (Roald Dahl)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

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Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)

Bir Dinazorun Anıları , Mina Urgan

Bir Dinazorun Anıları, Mina Urgan

Juno  (Jason Reitman)

Juno (Jason Reitman)

The Dead (James Joyce)

The Dead (James Joyce)

Benny & Joon  (Jeremiah S. Chechik)

Benny & Joon (Jeremiah S. Chechik)

Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." The Little Prince  (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college." Annie Hall  (Woody Allen)

"Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college."

Annie Hall (Woody Allen)

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence (Roy Andersson)

"Francis Mallmann", Chef's Table (Clay Jeter)

"Francis Mallmann", Chef's Table (Clay Jeter)

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

Little Men (Ira Sachs)

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi  (David Gelb)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)