By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.