There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

You can't believe everything you read.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.