In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.