Quotes from Lemony Snicket

If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

o mar] há quem diga, não passa de uma biblioteca de todas as lágrimas da história.

Frank or Ernest

Coach Genghis rather

It was like the growing distance I felt inside myself, between the person I wanted to be, the brave volunteer who would soon triumph against evil treachery, and the person I was, sitting in a room with damp socks and a bump on his head, turning a compass around and around in his hands. What are you doing here? I thought. What good are you? But I did not know if I was talking to the compass or the boy who was holding it.

You can't live far from the treachery of the world, because eventually the treachery will wash up on your shores.

Never trust anybody who has not brought a book with them.

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

knew that they weren't ugly, because they could

Kit e as crianças deixaram a sua tristeza juntar-se à tristeza do mundo, e choraram por todas as pessoas que estavam perdidas para eles

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

Count Olaf has been captured," she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more.

Violet and Klaus looked down at the

After the death of the Baudelaire parents, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had found themselves under the care of a variety of guardians. Some of them had been cruel. Some of them had been murdered.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated. Frustrated babies tend to throw food and make a mess. Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy. And frustrated moths tend to bang up against lightbulbs and make light fixtures all dusty. But unlike babies, citizens, and moths, leeches are quite unpleasant to begin with.

In the case of this sonata, Nero had apparently been inspired by somebody beating up a cat

I'm distraught, and I'm pregnant.

Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.