Quotes from Lemony Snicket

Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they'll still be in the world when we're gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

When you think of me," she said quietly, "think of a food you love very much.

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.

course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So

Life is like this, and literature, imaginary conversations and true stories mingling like languages in translation.

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.

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

Quagmires, remember?

Ha csak olyan történeteket szeretsz, amelyek jól végzÅ'dnek, szerencsésebb, ha más olvasmányt választasz.

I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five years later and be remembered as child who wrote nice thank-you notes.

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don't have irritating voices

I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Uncle Monty tell

tall and skinny, with arms and legs sticking out at odd angles, as if [they] were made of drinking straws instead of flesh and bone.

Várni, az élet egyik nehéz dolga.

It was a sickness in my stomach and in my mouth and even in my heart. The symptoms were nervousness and dread. I don't know what the illness is called. I've had it since I was a child.

I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out. "And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too." "I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.

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

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and

He was such a sneaky and revolting person that the eldest Baudelaire simply could not accept that his scheme was only as evil as the average gym class.

It was something from the earth or the sky or the sea, or from a dream or the pages of a book I wasn't yet old enough to read, about monsters I wasn't brave enough to face. Soon it was an immense noise that rattled everything in my body. It was the sound of being chased in a nightmare, or the blind and violent fury of a bad parent, a tantrum that deafened the ears of the living and slithered across the bones of the dead.

It's cold outside, Mr. Snicket.' 'So I'll shiver,' I said. 'I've shivered before.' She looked down at the table and traced her father's name with her black fingernail. 'So have I,' she said.