Quotes About Mystery

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday.

BRETT HELQUIST

There are words for a woman who walks the streets late at night," she said, with another meaningful look. "Words like insomniac.

A morning breeze blew through the campus of Prufrock Preparatory School, rustling the brown lawn and knocking against the stone arch with the motto printed on it. "Memento Mori"-"Remember you will die." The Baudelaire orphans looked up at the motto and vowed that before they died, they would solve this dark and complicated mystery that cast a shadow over their lives.

I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

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

Gregor was involved with something called Volatile Fungus Deportation.

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

after they had been reunited with their baby sister and learned the secret of Verbal Fridge Dialogue. And

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with out eyes closed, and all out stories end the same way, too.

There's a lot that doesn't make sense

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

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, and the only thing I could think of was finding out what was going on in this town.

The whole thing is like a jigsaw puzzle, but there are too many missing pieces to solve it.

It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquittance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

Quagmires, remember?

Uncle Monty tell

I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out. "And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too." "I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.

It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.

cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and as he talked to the children he looked at them through the rearview mirror.

The first rule is about bewilderment," the author said.

still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guides everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish. In the opera La

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