But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

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

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

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

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.