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On Sun, 15 Jan 12 00:47:07 UTC BlondShamrock (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Feeling you've failed everyone, and them feeling the same.
Where would you like to live?
Somewhere people are honest without the intent of an honest remark being funny.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To love and be loved, to never forget anyone, to always find the outside world beautiful, to find peace in music, to write something I am proud of and is completed, to be near my favourite restaurant, and for there to always be a breeze.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
To being unhappy with myself and not doing a thing about it when I am perfectly capable.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those that are more developed by a fan than on any other official media. Go fanfiction!
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Elizabeth I, Aristotle, JRR Tolkien, Anne Boleyn.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My beautiful sister, my Nanny, wonderful Carmen, the glorious beams of light that shed sight on a world that hadn't known the difference between night and day before dawn broke.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Lexie Anderson, Hermione Granger, Annabeth Chase, and many...many...more.
Your favorite painter?
My Grandad.
Your favorite musician?
I am in awe of many musicians, and I can't think of even one musician that can't be topped by another as they continue to crop into the forefront of my mind. Geez, what a loaded question!
The quality you most admire in a man?
Good humour, moral sense (copied), intelligence (again, copied), not being utterly clueless all the time. seriously.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
genuineness, ingenuity, optimism,intelligence, wisdom, and definitely open-mindedness.
Your favorite virtue?
Yep, pretty much all of them. They're all good right? So shouldn't we all aspire to have them?
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, laughing, thinking, and finding beauty in the simple things.
Who would you have liked to be?
I'd have liked to be many different people, but I understand that they had qualities that I want to see in myself, so I should simply try to be a better person so that I may become the best of who they are, so I'm not them, and in consequence I am myself.
Your most marked characteristic?
My own most marked characteristic? The need to be remembered and never forgotten. Others most marked characteristic of me? Becoming obsessed with things others would never be infatuated with. Ever.
What do you most value in your friends?
Open-mindedness and honesty, and true acceptance.
What is your principle defect?
Oh my goodness- procrastination! Ask anyone! But mostly for me it's my worrying mental calmness that deals with things literally as they come, to an extent that I'm not even sure that I reacted.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To have lived with regrets that could have been resolved and finding in myself, because of that, unhappiness. And also to have never known love.
What would you like to be?
A better version of myself that has things more under control, and a general sense of where life is taking me, because at the moment I've no effing clue.
What is your favorite color?
Colours alone are great, but unless there was more than one, then they wouldn't even be called colours, because there wouldn't be any need to differentiate-life would be dull. So, colours together, because there's a reason it's somewhere over the rainbow.
What is your favorite flower?
They're all pretty spectacular, but a familial favourite is poppies, a mythological one is wolfsbane, and a fictional one is Mimbulus Mimbletonia.
What is your favorite bird?
A crow. The pretty ones that are black sleek, with a pretty beak and not scary feet. They're gorgeous.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
I wish I knew...
Who are your favorite poets?
W.H. Auden, myself (though I can't find them ANYWHERE), and whoever wrote that Irish Blessing on the back on my Nanny's locket.
Who are your heroes in real life?
My Nanny, my sister (Sshhh! Don't tell her!), most of my teachers, my parents. Mostly my Nanny and Grandad.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Elizabeth I.
What are your favorite names?
Names that I've unintentionally come up with, that my friends adopt for me.
What is it you most dislike?
Closed-mindedness. Refusal of attempting to understand. Seeing bad qualities in other people and hating them more, knowing that I have them too.
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, and all others who have sought to cause any harm to an innocent-or not-life.
What event in military history do you most admire?
I admire many things, but war is not one of them, so I cannot admire the military for all the good it has done and all the imbalance it has caused.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
How about the gift for that to be made possible?
How would you like to die?
Knowing I left a mark on the world in some way.
What is your present state of mind?
I'm tired and hungry, though my mental capacity seems broadened.
What is your motto?
I'm so hungry I can't think. Feed me computer, FEED ME!

I really am hungry. This took forever.

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