Quotes About Intrigue

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E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don't know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.

A mystery is solved with a story.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.

I pushed the door open, slow as long division.

It is always interesting to observe what people are wearing in the middle of the night, although there are more pleasant ways to make such observations without being accused of murder.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Most field trips contain sinister plots.

Bluh bluh bluh," Klaus bluhed.

If you are going to hear the work of the world's greatest composers, you will have to allow for a little murder here and there. […] Those who want justice can go to the police, but those who want something a little more interesting should go to the orchestra!

Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.

They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf's house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.

I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize!

THE REPTILE ROOM

Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.

BRETT HELQUIST

As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware... I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.