I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

The only thing he cares about.

It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?