Frantz (François Ozon)

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)

"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)

"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

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

Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner)

The House on Mango Street  (Sandra Cisneros)