"Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautifu..."
- Daniel Handler
"I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that I was Ed Slaterton's girlfriend, loved by you for like ten secs, and who cares, so what, and not an..."
"You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there."
"There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiti..."
"We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit, I guess I..."
"Phillip Murray and Wanda Saxton meet in the last scene under the rainy awning, their wrong wife and fiance finally story-lined away, and walk out together into the downpour - we know from the first sc..."
"Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me."
"All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is."
"This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position."
"You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans."