Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!
Daniel HandlerThe story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.
Daniel HandlerAnd when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the loverโs house and maybe a couple of things which arenโt technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.
Daniel Handler