Lemony Snicket

Quotes by Lemony 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.

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• everything happens for a reason.

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• What do your parents know, about surviving?

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that moment and for many moments afterward, my entire world revolved around her.

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• At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

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

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• 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.

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• Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

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• Money is like a child— rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

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• The world is quiet here.

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• Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

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

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• The world is full of disappointment, I said.Yes, she said, I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?No, I said. There's more than that.Like what?Like good books, I said, and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once.

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

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

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• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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