I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

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

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.