Lemony Snicket Quotes

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

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.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.

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Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister, " which is easier done than said.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

What a schmuck!

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

I'm not a stranger, " I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

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.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally."No, " Sunny answered."Me neither, " Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

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?

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.”“My sister is a nice girl, ” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.

Of course you can trust me, " Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

...It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

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.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so

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.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

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.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

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.

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.