who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.