Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room Quotes

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

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.

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?

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.