"The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up."
- Daniel Handler
"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
"I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up."
"This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we..."
"Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better."
"There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of..."
"For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it."
"No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more..."
"He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean."
"Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard."