“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.”
“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.”
“...if this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.”
“You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”