Folie à Deux (with Sarah)

the words don’t always exist

Mamihlapinatapei

Yagan – the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start first.

Tingo

Pascuense - the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.

Wasi-Sabi

Japanese – a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.

L’appel du vide

French – “The call of the void” is this French expression’s literal translation, but more significantly it’s used to describe the instinctive urge to jump from high places.

Ya-aburnee

Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them

Saudade

Portuguese – One of the most beautiful of all words, translatable or not, this word refers to the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.

Toska 

Russian : At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

Maybeshewill - Letters for Arabella