“People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. They're like chef's salad, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

—  Daniel Handler, book The Grim Grotto

The Grim Grotto (2004)

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