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But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and has never hurt a soul.

The past can be as difficult to imagine as the future. It would be helpful in life, as in confusing books, to have an author, if that's the right word, explaining to us everything we find bewildering, in the hopes we all might feel better.

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

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

The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized." "What your brother does for a hobby is none of my concern," Sir said.

Stop!" Jerome Squalor pleaded. "In the name of injustice!

She crawled in front of the Baudelaires' guardian and bared her teeth at Captain Sham.

Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in!

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And Klaus, you are still wearing those idiotic glasses from reading too many books.

Nagy sóhajjal fölvette hát azt a könyvet, amelyet az elÅ'bb Violetnek ajánlott, és mint annyiszor életében, most is az olvasásban talált menedéket a borzalmas helyzet elÅ'l.

and all of it was dark. I could see tall shelves, and a few windows covered in thick shades that hid the starlight. In the middle of the room was a circular table with shadows gathered around it. "Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?" asked

Theodora glared at me, but Mrs. Murphy Sallis gave me a brief smile and offered me her hand, which was as smooth and soft as old lettuce.

If you spent less time reading and more time thinking about lumber, you'd care more about money and less about people!

The Baudelaires looked up and saw their guardian standing in the doorway of Violet's

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.

The Big Peruvian Book of Small Peruvian Snakes.

the famous ichnologist and Josephine's brother-in-law. But all that's ancient history.

There is the medical definition of the word "lousy," meaning "infested with lice," and this definition of "lousy" has not appeared in my work at all, although as Count Olaf's hygiene gets worse and worse I may find occasion to use it.

But to force your dreadful singing voice on somebody, or even a crowd of people, is one of the world's most wicked crimes

Or was the truth - like so many truths - not any one of the envisaged possibilities?

But I saw no sign of Fiona shedding the chrysalis of Communism.

She was only a child and I suppose such corny little manifestations of endearment were what she thought appropriate to her role as a femme fatale.