I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.