When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

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

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

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.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.