idk how soon it exactly was, but the alchemist

the little prince cause it’s the first book that i read and plato’s symposium cause it’s the first book i requested out of my own will

city sushi

“Despite their vastly different paths they found themselves transplants in a decadent and disorientating city besieged by bombing raids, it was in this familiar happenstance that they found refuge in each other.”

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

i normally fully visualise characters on my head– i don’t base their appearance on faces that exist in my memory, they’re all an extension of my own imagination.