And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

Me: “Ngh” Cal: “Well put.” ...... Every Boy's Got One

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!