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#1

“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

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#2

“There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

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#3

“You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

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#4

“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

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#5

“Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?”

Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said, “Perhaps because he doubted himself.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

tags: reynie-muldoon

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#6

“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

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#7

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

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#9

“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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#9

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: inspirational, kind, kindness, powerful, sword

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#10

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#11

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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#12

“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

tags: drama, theatre

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#13

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

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#14

“If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

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#15

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#16

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

tags: love, shakespeare

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#17

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

tags: love

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#18

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents

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#19

“I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

tags: deep

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#20

“Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

tags: loneliness, mattering

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#21

“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

tags: benedick-love-humor-shakespeare

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#22

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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#23

“They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

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#24

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

tags: hope, mail

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#25

“What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

tags: princess-diaries

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#27

“You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

tags: cannonball, constance-constraire, small-things-are-great

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#27

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: ice-cream-sandwhiches, leaving-home

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#28

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, humor, love

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#29

“Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: mal, nikolai, sturmhond

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#30

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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