The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)

by Lemony Snicket

“What’s so important about brunch?” Violet asked.

That one friend in your group who's uninitiated.

The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, and all the threads are unraveled, and everything is laid out clearly for the world to see.

one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.