I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.