The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)

by Lemony Snicket

Count Olaf is not really dead, and we did not really murder him STOP.” “Arrete?” Sunny asked. “‘STOP’ is the code for the end of a sentence,” Klaus explained.

And I would hop like nobody has ever hopped before, if I could somehow go back to that terrible Thursday, and stop Beatrice from attending that afternoon tea where she met Esmé Squalor for the first time.

“After all, a cheerful attitude is the most effective tool against sickness.” “I thought antibiotics were,” Klaus said. “Echinacea!” Sunny said. She meant “Or well-tested herbal remedies,”

“Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said, which was something she had said only once before. It meant something along the lines of “I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of what is going on,”

“This page has two names on it,” Violet said. “One name is Al Funcoot.” “That’s the man who wrote that horrible play Olaf forced us to perform,” Klaus said. “I know,” Violet said, “but the other name I don’t recognize: ‘Ana Gram.’”

Al Funcoot is an anagram!!!!

“She decided to pursue a career as a stuntwoman, and has begun throwing herself off buildings immediately.

??????

This is a story about Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, and how they discovered something in the Library of Records of Heimlich Hospital that changed their lives forever and still gives me the heebie-jeebies whenever I am alone at night STOP.

when I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor?

“Kalm,” Sunny said, which meant “I can’t read very well, but I think this one says ‘Sequel to Serenity.’”

“Because of the evidence discussed on page nine,” read the sentence above the photograph, “experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor’s whereabouts are unknown.”

The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

“And I don’t like the sound of that operation. ‘Cranio’ means ‘head,’ and ‘ectomy’ is a medical term for removing something.” “Decap?” Sunny asked in a horrified whisper. She meant something like “Do you think they’re going to cut off Violet’s head?”

“Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of “I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of what is going on.” Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.

An anagram is when you move the letters around in one or more words to make another word or words.” “Still pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said with a sigh.

Mr. Sirin did not care much if he was captured—he had been in prison four and a half times over the course of his long and complicated life—but he cared very much about the butterflies. He realized that these six delicate insects would undoubtedly perish in bug prison, where poisonous spiders, stinging bees, and other criminals would rip them to shreds.

You might read a book on how to have a successful marriage, when the only woman you will ever love has married someone else and then perished one terrible afternoon.

Once I was a content man, with a comfortable home, a successful career, a person I loved very much, and an extremely reliable typewriter, but all of those things have been taken away from me, and now the only trace I have of those happy days is the tattoo on my left ankle.

“Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said, but she did as Violet asked and poked her sharpest tooth through the bottom of the can.