How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world