Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

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

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?