Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.