"'You should call him Dr. Montgomery,' Mr. Poe replied, 'unless he asks you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't really make much difference."' Chapter 1, page 6.

""'Bambini" is an Italian word for children,' Uncle Monty explained. 'I had a sudden urge to speak a little Italian."' Chapter 2, page 18.

"There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize." Chapter 3, page 31.

"He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter." Chapter 3, page 35.

"'If anyone deserved to travel along Lousy Lane,' Violet said, glaring at him, 'it is you, Count Olaf."' Chapter 4, page 45.

"Violet, Klaus and Sunny all knew that...