Quotes from Lemony Snicket

turn into a literal one.

I still felt sick. 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.

A legszörny?bb, legkilátástalanabb is jól el lehet viselni, ha a szeretet és az egymás iránti kedvesség uralkodik az emberek között.

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return

seemed like small potatoes.

You can't see it on me, but hidden in the depths of my life is the permanent opinion that a match is a wicked thing. This is wrong, of course. It's nonsense. A match is only as wicked as the person who is using it.

There are some stories you never get to finish.

You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!" "Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said. "Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.

Sometimes even in the most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.

People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger

Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

I looked out the window at the dark and racing scenery and I thought of the city, where the train would eventually arrive. I hadn't seen the city since my apprenticeship began, and for a moment I felt so homesick I had to stop and lean my head against the glass. Dear Kit, I thought. And then I said it out loud. "I wish you were here.

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

Bizony gyakran történik ez így az életben. A barátok éppen akkor t?nnek el, amikor a legnagyobb szükség lenne rájuk; a fájdalom felhÅ'je riasztja el Å'ket szerencsétlenül jártak közelébÅ'l. Én csak azt mondhatom, hogy sohasem lennék képes így viselkedni, és bizonyos vagyok abban, hogy ti sem, akik ezt a szomorú történetet olvassátok!

When my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could see that what had first appeared to be walls were large cardboard boxes stacked up in every available place, making the room seem smaller than it really was. The dark was real, though. It almost always is.

Your parents," Mr. Poe said, "have perished in a terrible fire.

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

el mar, del que alguien ha dicho que no es otra cosa que una biblioteca de todas las lágrimas de la historia.

José!" Sunny shrieked, which probably meant something like "No way!

when someone spoke it startled me enough that I made several involuntary noises, a phrase which here means "sounds without meaning to." Involuntary noises are my least favorite kind of noise I can make. If I'm going to sound foolish I would at least like to have done it on purpose.

He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do