Quotes from Lemony Snicket

Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.

She hadn't told Klaus about her plan, because she didn't want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of her room.

All of life is just shadows.

You want friends who choose you, because they find you charming and fascinating, rather than just each and every person who talks through your door.

We've discovered a way to dilute

Like an envelope, a hollow figurine, and a coffin, a refrigerator can hold all sorts of things, and they may turn out to be very important depending on what kind of day you are having.

Oh, no," he said. "We don't read the newspaper. It's too depressing. Our motto is 'No news is good news.

I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.

I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.

We're an invincible army, but not a victorious one.

Even the most ridiculous of stories can contain a grain of truth.

Happiness, in my experience, is like a bowl of bananas, because if you pay too much attention, it gets gobbled away, but if you forget all about it, either a robber steals it or it ends up rotten mush. It can be tricky to keep one's happiness intact, and the interference of a supermarket strikes me as only making things trickier.

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit.

If we keep waiting until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of your lives.

They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf's house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

To be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

It's hard when you're missing your family," Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two - a schism or a death, a fire or a mutiny, the loss of a home or the destruction of a tea set. The only solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation.

I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother.

We'll see what you find out," Stew said. "You'll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you won't really find out, because you'll be dead. Get it? What I mean is, it'll kill you when I throw you from this train so you'll be in no state to find out what it feels like. Get it? Due to your death by falling from a train.

Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means 'something you don't like the first few times you eat it....