“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”

“Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.”

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

“If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.”