The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)

by Lemony Snicket

Shyness is a curious thing,

Memento Mori’ means ‘Remember you will die.’”

Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is,

if you are a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside,