“To all my teachers including my mother”

“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus . . . I rhyme.”

“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”

“Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan." Is it Nate?"She calls me Honeylips.”

“Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”“No.”“Then to me you are Paul.”...“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.“My mother never calls me Nathan.”“Is it Nate?”“She calls me Honeylips.”

“I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my mother. I wouldn't have blamed them at all if it was the latter - most people went to great lengths to avoid her on a regular basis, myself and my father included.”