Quotes from Lemony Snicket

El salmón no tiene nada de malo, claro está, pero al igual que las golosinas, el yogur de fresa y el limpiaalfombras líquido, si se come en exceso no se disfruta.

Por supuesto, todas las noches son días oscuros, por que la noche es simplemente una versión mal iluminada del día.

realize some of your previous guardians have caused a little trouble, but I think Mr. and Mrs.

blackstrap molasses, wild clover honey, corn syrup, aged balsamic vinegar, apple butter, strawberry jam, caramel sauce, maple syrup, butterscotch topping, maraschino liqueur, virgin and extra-virgin olive oil, lemon curd, dried apricots, mango chutney, crema di noci, tamarind paste, hot mustard, marshmallows, creamed corn, peanut butter, grape preserves, salt water taffy, condensed milk, pumpkin pie filling, and glue.

People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. "They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Look, everybody has a turn, Snicket. Giacomo Casanova had a turn. Marcel Duchamp had a turn. Beverly Cleary had a turn. People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons. Your turn now.

There are some librarians so trustworthy and so interesting that you know any book they recommend will be worth your time

Without the dark, everything would be light, and you would never know if you needed a lightbulb.

you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

but had been dropped into the middle of its depths. CHAPTER Four

one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy

From time to time, the Baudelaire children looked at one another, but with their future such a mystery they could think of nothing to say.

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive—the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do"—to read long, dull, and difficult books.

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. Appearance matters a great deal, because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

As I have said, I prefer a shop which sells one thing to a shop which sells many things, and a supermarket, of course, tries to sell everything, and there is always something distrustful about a place so eager to please.

resemble a lab assistant.

My love: You were pretty, and I was lonely. And now I'm .... pretty lonely

The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, and all the threads are unraveled, and everything is laid out clearly for the world to see. But the denouement should not be confused with the end of the story...It is often the second-to-last event, or the penultimate peril.

I think the survivor is here," the scout said quietly, and removed his mask to reveal his face at last. "I'm Quigley Quagmire," he said, "I survived the fire that destroyed my home, and I was hoping to find my brother and sister.

Prem!" Sunny said

rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have, he had just one long one.

Ackroid!" Sunny said, which probably meant something like "Roger!