Accidents happen all the time.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.