i. "Well-behaved women seldom make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, 2007.
ii. “I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.” East of Eden
iii. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
iv. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, 1996.
v. "Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937.
vi. "Terror made me cruel." Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847.
vii. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957.
viii. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985.
ix. "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 1605.
x. "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
xi. "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850.
xii. "She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." Neil Gaiman, Stardust, 1999.
xiii. "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others." George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1874.
xiv. "Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are." Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003.
xv. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons), 1982.
xvi. "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954.
xvii. "'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'" E.B. White, Charlotte's Web, 1952.
xviii. "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.
xix. “For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.” Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds, 2012.
xx.
xxi.
i. ephemeral (adj.) lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
ii. mellifluous (adj.) a sound that is sweet and smooth, pleasing to hear.
iii. ineffable (adj.) too great to be expressed in words.
iv. beleaguer (v.) to lay siege to; to beset with difficulties.
v. chatoyant (adj.) (of a gem, especially when cut en cabochon) showing a band of bright reflected light caused by aligned inclusions in the stone.
vi. cynosure (n.) a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.
vii. dalliance (n.) a brief affair of romantic or sexual means.
viii. hiraeth (n.) homesickness for a home you can't return to, or one that never was.
ix. epiphany (n.) a moment of sudden realization.
x. epoch (n.) a particular period of time in history or a person's life.
xi. syzygy (n.) an alignment of celestial bodies.
xii. vellichor (n.) the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
xiii. sonder (n.) the realization that every passerby has a life as complex as your own.
xiv. lachesism (n.) the desire to be struck by disaster, which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.
i. torschlusspanik (n.) fear that there is no more time to achieve life goals.
ii. schnapsidee (n.) an idea you had while drunk that you will probably regret.
iii. luftschloss (n.) an unrealistic dream.
iv. weltschmerz (n.) despair caused by the state of the world.
v. zugzwang (n.) the feeling of being forced to make a move when you'd rather do nothing.
i. Group; when a dear friend goes missing, a group of people from four families go on a search to retrieve her - however, they learn about the dark secrets hidden by their families for generations instead.
ii. Group; seven sins and virtues
iii. group; metahumans
iv. Representatives (crown heirs) from the four kingdoms (Alyastika, Sul, Azuma, Oeste) set a meeting with each other along with their closest accomplices.
v. East Asian mafia
ii. “I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.” East of Eden
iii. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
iv. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, 1996.
v. "Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937.
vi. "Terror made me cruel." Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847.
vii. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957.
viii. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985.
ix. "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 1605.
x. "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
xi. "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850.
xii. "She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." Neil Gaiman, Stardust, 1999.
xiii. "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others." George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1874.
xiv. "Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are." Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003.
xv. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons), 1982.
xvi. "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954.
xvii. "'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'" E.B. White, Charlotte's Web, 1952.
xviii. "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.
xix. “For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.” Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds, 2012.
xx.
xxi.
i. ephemeral (adj.) lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
ii. mellifluous (adj.) a sound that is sweet and smooth, pleasing to hear.
iii. ineffable (adj.) too great to be expressed in words.
iv. beleaguer (v.) to lay siege to; to beset with difficulties.
v. chatoyant (adj.) (of a gem, especially when cut en cabochon) showing a band of bright reflected light caused by aligned inclusions in the stone.
vi. cynosure (n.) a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.
vii. dalliance (n.) a brief affair of romantic or sexual means.
viii. hiraeth (n.) homesickness for a home you can't return to, or one that never was.
ix. epiphany (n.) a moment of sudden realization.
x. epoch (n.) a particular period of time in history or a person's life.
xi. syzygy (n.) an alignment of celestial bodies.
xii. vellichor (n.) the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
xiii. sonder (n.) the realization that every passerby has a life as complex as your own.
xiv. lachesism (n.) the desire to be struck by disaster, which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.
i. torschlusspanik (n.) fear that there is no more time to achieve life goals.
ii. schnapsidee (n.) an idea you had while drunk that you will probably regret.
iii. luftschloss (n.) an unrealistic dream.
iv. weltschmerz (n.) despair caused by the state of the world.
v. zugzwang (n.) the feeling of being forced to make a move when you'd rather do nothing.
i. Group; when a dear friend goes missing, a group of people from four families go on a search to retrieve her - however, they learn about the dark secrets hidden by their families for generations instead.
ii. Group; seven sins and virtues
iii. group; metahumans
iv. Representatives (crown heirs) from the four kingdoms (Alyastika, Sul, Azuma, Oeste) set a meeting with each other along with their closest accomplices.
v. East Asian mafia