Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.