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1 O things on 1O lists

(please do tell me your 1O things too)

ten things that make me happy

1. feeling snuggly and warm when it's freezing outside

2. friendly strangers

3. late night phone calls

4. cracking glowsticks

5. freshly squeezed lemonade

6. perfectly messy hair

7. crashing waves

8. boys' hoodies

9. handwritten notes

10. typewriters

ten songs I could listen to over and over

1. wish you were here - pink floyd

2. baba o'riley - the who

3. first day of my life - bright eyes

4. come thou fount - sufjan stevens

5. liebestraum no. 3 - franz liszt 

6. timshel - mumford & sons

7. tiny dancer - elton john

8. no surprises - radiohead

9. voodoo child - jimi hendrix

10. epilogue - the antlers 

ten celebrities who should probably date me

1. dylan o'brien ♡

2. john krasinski

3. adam levine

4. joseph gordon-levitt

5. aidan turner

6. matthew gray gubler

7. paul rudd

8. christoph waltz

9. leonardo dicaprio

10. jennifer lawrence - added because she's just amazing

ten favorite films

1. the darjeeling limited

2. fight club

3. pride and prejudice (2005)

4. almost famous

5. alice in wonderland (1957)

6. garden state

7. away we go

8. star wars iv: a new hope

9. the breakfast club

10. inglourious basterds

ten favorite books

1. the diving bell and the butterfly // jean-dominique bauby

2. fight club // chuck palahniuk

3. the great gatsby // f. scott fitzgerald

4. twenty love poems and a song of despair // pablo neruda

5. dubliners // james joyce

6. pride and prejudice // jane austen

7. to kill a mockingbird // harper lee

8. alice in wonderland // lewis carroll

9. looking for alaska // john green

10. slaughterhouse-five // kurt vonnegut

ten bands i could never get sick of

1. radiohead

2. mumford & sons

3. neutral milk hotel

4. brand new

5. bob dylan

6. blink-182

7. bon iver

8. nirvana

9. simon & garfunkel

10. the black keys

ten favorite television shows

1. sherlock

2. arrested development

3. house

4. parks and recreation

5. the office

6. american horror story

7. teen wolf

8. game of thrones

9. supernatural

10. modern family 

ten words/phrases i find beautiful

1. efflorescence - a bursting forth or flowering

2. l'appel du vide -  "call of the void"; the instinctive urge some people get to jump when near high places

3. Lethe - a river in the Greek underworld that, when drunk from, made souls forget the sufferings of life

4.ingénue - a naïve young woman
5. noceur - one who sleeps late or not at all
6. nyctophilia - love of darkness or night; finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness
7. cafuné - the act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair
8. wanderlust - a great desire to travel or rove about 
9. saudade - the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost 
10. l'espirit de l'escalier - "staircase wit"; the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late

ten favorite quotes

1. "and there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away" -sarah kay 

2. "the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea"

3. "many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone." - kurt vonnegut

4. "some people never go crazy. what truly horrible lives they must lead." - charles bukowski

5. "you don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is th emost calming thing in this world." - emery allen

6. "people should fall in love with their eyes closed" -andy warhol

7. "he offered her the world, she said she had her own." -monique duval

8. "The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself." 

-adam elenbass

9. "cussing doesn't come from a lack of vocabulary - I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does." - anis moghani

10. "get scared. it will do you good. smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. get scared some more. allow your little mind to do nothing but function. stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. you will never be able to experience everything. so, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself." -albert camus

ten places i'd like to go to before i die

1.  peru

2. india

3. italy

4. new zealand

5. greece

6. england

7. ireland

8. palau

9. australia

10. south africa

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i'm curious. what are your 10 things?