Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.