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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.”

Daniel Handler book The Carnivorous Carnival

Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)

“It's always dawnest before dark”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Soundly

“They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Frigidly

“I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.”

Daniel Handler book The Miserable Mill

The Miserable Mill (2000)

“This was that day if you know what I mean.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Frigidly

“I'll have ten grams of rice, Mrs. Bass interrupted, one tenth of a hectogram of shrimp vindaloo, a dekagram of chana aloo masala, one thousand centigrams of tandori salmon, four samosas with surface area of nineteen cubic centimeters, five deciliters of mango lassi, and a sada rava dosai that's exactly nineteen centimeters long.”

Daniel Handler book The Penultimate Peril

page 134.
The Penultimate Peril (2005)

“A cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds of dust or included them in their landscapes or still life. Film directors rarely choose huge clouds of dust to play the lead roles in romantic comedies, and as far as my research has shown, a huge cloud of dust has never placed higher than twenty-fifth in a beauty pageant.”

Daniel Handler book The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village (2001)

“I can't stand the lyrics.”

Daniel Handler book The Grim Grotto

Klaus
The Grim Grotto (2004)

“Klaus: Yes, sir.”

Daniel Handler book The Miserable Mill

The Miserable Mill (2000)

“The world is a harum-scarum place.”

Daniel Handler book The Carnivorous Carnival

"Harum?" Sunny asked.
It's complicated and confusing," Olivia explained. They say that long ago it was simple and quiet, but that might be a legend.
The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)