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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad."“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.