Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.