The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.