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“If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.”
― Lemony Snicket

“You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“I write storys to entertain not to be the best”
― lemony snicket

“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

“All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village

“You can’t see it on me, but hidden in the depths of my life is the permanent opinion that a match is a wicked thing. This is wrong, of course. It’s nonsense. A match is only as wicked as the person who is using it.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquittance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“If your mind is on a book, for example, you may see the world of the book around you, even if you are not reading at the time”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they’ll still be in the world when we’re gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

“Life is like this, and literature, imaginary conversations and true stories mingling like languages in translation.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don’t have irritating voices”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Bravery often demands a price.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it. We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble, and so The End is really the middle of the story”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

“I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“It is remarkable that different people will have different thoughts when they look at the same thing.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“There's information about everything from poetry to
pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle,
which we're walking down right now.
”
― Lemony Snicket

“In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else”
― Lemony Snicket, The End