A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection Quotes

“I once threw myself down a flight of stairs rather than face even one moment with a milliner, at whose shop I quit working after discovering the sinister truth about her berets, only to find that the paramedic who repaired my fractured arm was a man who had fired me from a job playing accordion in his orchestra after only two and half performances of a certain opera.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“a triumphant grin on his face, dressed in a familiar suit made of slippery-looking material, but with a portrait of another author whom only a very devoted reader would recognize,”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“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

“after they had been reunited with their baby sister and learned the secret of Verbal Fridge Dialogue. And”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I’m very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering—but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“that a story in The Daily Punctilio was completely true, and to show this article to so many volunteers, including the Baudelaire parents, the Snicket siblings, and the woman I happened to love.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“But to force your dreadful singing voice on somebody, or even a crowd of people, is one of the world’s most wicked crimes,”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“People aren’t either wicked or noble,” the hook-handed man said. “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, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“the famous ichnologist and Josephine’s brother-in-law. But all that’s ancient history.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13

“It is always tedious when someone says that if you don’t stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much. Sunny”
― Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 10-13