Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

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.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.