Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

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.

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.