For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?