Quotes from Lemony Snicket

With you away, it is as if all the letters in my life are scrambled into an anagram, and I will not be able to put all the letters in order and make sense of anything until you return. I never want to be apart from you again, Beatrice, except in the restroom, at work, and when one of us is at a movie that the other does not want to see.

I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

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.

Sometimes the things you've lost can be found again in unexpected places.

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.

So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about.

Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

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

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!" said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

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.

she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

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

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.

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.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that