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They are all one, the mothers of us all, like the money you spent. Imagine the vanish of weight if the advice of your mother never existed. They tell us things, unless we have no mothers and either way things turn out such that nothing you've ever heard is ever any help.

— Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

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Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from, or how often they should appear.

The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)

As the aphorism says, If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)

My stepfather said that the amount of treachery in this world is enormous and that the best we could do was one small noble thing.

The Grim Grotto (2004)

For Beatrice— No one could extinguish my love, or your house.

The Penultimate Peril (2005)

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

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