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Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.
Foreshadow?
somniferous, a fancy word for something that is so boring it puts you to sleep.
“Ersatz” is a word that describes a situation in which one thing is pretending to be another,
“The Devil’s Tongue?” Klaus asked. “It’s a knot,” Violet explained. “It was invented by female Finnish pirates in the fifteenth century.
The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
Sunny did not reply, but her siblings were not alarmed because they imagined it was difficult to say much when you had a mouthful of wall.
I would have fled to some remote corner of the world and hid from Gunther and his associates
Foreshadow
The doorman was struggling past the children with his scarlet herring
Gunther announced, and pushed an enormous cardboard box onto the stage. It was as big as the fish statue—just the right size for storing two small children.
“And we don’t want to forget about everything else, either—like the underground hallway that led to our ruined mansion, and the real meaning of V.F.D.!”
a real guardian is supposed to provide a home, with a place to sleep and something to wear, and all Jerome had given them in the end was “Good luck.”
An aphorism is merely a small group of words arranged in a certain order because they sound good that way, but oftentimes people tend to say them as if they were saying something very mysterious and wise.
