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“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution -- even if it's right in front of your nose.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“When things don't go right, go left”
― Lemony Snicket

“Hay muchos, muchos tipos de libros en el mundo, lo cual tiene sentido porque hay muchas, muchas clases de personas y todas quieren leer algo diferente.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a wonderful movie, or attending a dinner party with fascinating guests.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village

“It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Dark

“Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

“So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...”
― Lemony Snicket

“I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.”
― Lemony Snicket

“A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

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