Principle life book, the Acad, that time my two best friends at school ran away to be hobos and/or pirates, delusions of grandeur, my animus embodied by every boyfriend in my dreams, being totally depressed but mildly optimistic, I might name one of my daughters Emil and a son Max, my relationship with books, I’m convinced that every problem in life can be solved by this book, feeling conflicted about being a black girl who relates to a random German kid, that haunted feeling that I got when I finished reading this book in the middle of the night as well as the feeling like I was equipped to deal with anything that the world throws at me