the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

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

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.

Blinded following the Blindfolded