Hannah, 19 - Hannah Karim

Loves:

-Immanuel Kant’s spiel on means, ends, and the morality of it all

-when the whole room applauded as Hazel Grace kissed Augustus Waters in the Anne Frank house

-the thought of living in the south of france, in a villa easily construable by the version of André Aciman that wrote Call Me By Your Name

-when the mirror reflects an image of him looking at me looking at us having sex

-the roman numeral four

-the older fish in This is Water by David Foster Wallace

-the futility of seeking to recreate the past as portrayed in The Great Gatsby

-private displays of affection

-Bleu de Chanel sprayed profusely

-impulsively pierced skin

-exhaling smoke

-the eulogy my mother read at my grandmother’s funeral

-watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s with my mom

-Cleopatra and Frankenstein, not the iconic figures, but the contemporary novel that briefly references them

-knowing people can’t save people

-my friend’s grocery store analogy on love

-knowing people that appear to save you will only hurt you less swiftly, less blatantly, and therefore far more deeply than whatever they allegedly saved you from

-epigraphs

-translating the original texts of Kafka

-learning how to be someone else’s person while still being my own