Throw away the shame of middle-class poverty and hand-me-downs. Your intelligence has silenced rooms full of people more often than anyone ever noticed your clothes. You are a power, a presence that lightens a load or bears a burden with the graces of queens and spirits of angels. You are free and beautiful exactly as you are. Turn away from those who dislike you. Someone else will recognize your infinite value.

I find that David Rosenfelt and Joe R. Lansdale are excellent for comic relationships and characters that jump off the page. I gave that type of dialogue a shot with two old Italian men who are based on relatives/friends, complete with the accents. Something like, "I hear you love-a you wife?" "I no love-a my wife, I never love-a my wife and I never gonna love-a my wife!" "How long you been married?" "53 years."