who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.
Daniel HandlerThe quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.
Daniel HandlerLike a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
Daniel HandlerIf you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.
Daniel HandlerIf you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
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