“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.”

“E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the lastcabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in Howin the World Are We Going to Escape?”

“Bridgerton,” he grunted. Damn damn damn. Colin Bridgerton was the last person he wanted to see right now. Even the ghost of Napoleon, come down to slice a rapier through his gullet, would have been preferable.”

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.”

“He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.”