Quotes - Leah Brandstaedter (Spring Valley, NY) Showing 1-30 of 116

#1

“But a bad person who thinks they’re a good one—now, that’s what got him into trouble.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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#2

“You can tell a lot about someone from whether they can handle an uncomfortable silence. If they ride it out or snap it off.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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#3

“Anger is as much an heirloom as any Rolex.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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#4

“one of the kindest things you can do to someone is to cut them off.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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#5

“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

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#6

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#7

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#8

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

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#9

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

tags: life

7218 likes

#10

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

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#11

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#12

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

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#13

“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.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading

1827 likes

#14

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

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#15

“They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

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#16

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: wrong

1244 likes

#17

“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor

1124 likes

#18

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: anxiety, hope

1038 likes

#19

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

tags: humor

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#20

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fear

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#21

“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: eavesdropping, gossip

877 likes

#22

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

817 likes

#23

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: deserve, injustice

790 likes

#24

“They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

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#25

“Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

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#26

“I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

tags: authors, reading, strangers

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#27

“Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

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#28

“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

tags: all-the-wrong-questions, books, bookworm, lemony-snicket, libraries, reading, shouldn-t-you-be-in-school

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#29

“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

tags: might, mightier, pen, sword

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#30

“Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

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