It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

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

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.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.