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Keith has one of those all terrain things that will come in so handy when the world ends and we need a nine-thousand -cylinder engine to drive over those hordes of blood-thirsty mutants crawling all over the video-game landscape.

— 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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