Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences. - Daniel Handler

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

"Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go."

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.