Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be In School? Quotes
Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.
People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.
You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.
I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.
People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.
We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.
It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.
Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked.Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No, " he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs.
There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.
It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.
It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.
The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.
When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.
We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.
Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?
It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
