Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

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

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!

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.