Lemony Snicket Quotes
It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.
It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.
Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket, " she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.
But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter
Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.
You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.
We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us
Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.
There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.
That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...
I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.
We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.
A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.
Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it, " I said.
Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.
If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.
Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure
In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.
People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.
...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
I will love you as an oven loves malfunctioning in the middle of roasting a turkey.
Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.
The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.
...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
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.
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here, " as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.
The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.
You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.