Quotes from Lemony Snicket

It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.

I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip form slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory.

A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed architect.

It's hard when you're missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Hello, freaky peoples!

It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.

If only one had a little more time to do some important reading, all the secrets in the world would become clear.

Calling a person 'sir' can often help you get what you want, unless of course the person is a woman.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better.

I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. 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, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear: "I would rather eat a bowl of vampire bats than spend an hour with Carmelita Spats." The Baudelaires giggled and then covered their mouths so nobody would know they were laughing at Carmelita. "That was great," Klaus said. "I like the part about the bowl of bats.

But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

But the children knew, as I?m sure you know, that the worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curious unsolved case.

Very lovely indeed" —Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.

If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?" "I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

I hate it too," Violet said, and Klaus looked at his older sister with relief. Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

You cannot live far from the treachery of the world, because eventually the treachery will wash up on your shores.

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man." "Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble - a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal - than what you think of yourself.

Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.