One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.