If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.