The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

A mystery is solved with a story.

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)