Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

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

The only thing he cares about.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.