Quotes from Lemony Snicket

I watched her eyes sweep across the scrap of paper more than twice. A fantastic librarian reads everything two times at least.

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

So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish.

THE REPTILE ROOM

It was Stephano, or, if you prefer, it was Count Olaf. It was the bad guy.

everything being fine is only one of many, many reasons why someone may not contact you. Perhaps they are tied up. Maybe they are surrounded by fierce weasels, or perhaps they are wedged tightly between two refrigerators and cannot get themselves out.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

The last safe place may not be a safe place after all.

Algunas veces, sólo decir que odias algo y que alguien esté de acuerdo contigo puede hacer que te sientas mejor, a pesar de lo terrible de la situación.

Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The

It is true, of course, that you never know. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

When the town aches, the Swinster Pharmacy aches with it.

If you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.

The bears bear hard hard yarn yarns" you are unlikely to be confused.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of mornings.

unpleasant in the world. It is called Lousy Lane. Lousy Lane runs through fields that are a sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so

There is a popular game in which one person says something to another, and that person says it to another, and so on and so on, and all the while the message is getting more and more garbled until it is nonsense. The game is called "living in the world" and has been played for thousands of years.

sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the

scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, "You are noble enough," and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt. Most

Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.

Friends can make you feel that the world is small and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences....

window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any

Every problem has a solution.... Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even if it's right in front of your nose.