Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

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.

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.