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

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.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. 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.

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.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

The best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'