“ Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events) Lemony Snicket
“ At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unf… Lemony Snicket
“ A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. Daniel Handler
“ You write poetry?" Klaus asked.He had read a lot about poets but had never met one."Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine.""Sappho!"… Lemony Snicket
“ Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that mo… Lemony Snicket
“ In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and there… Lemony Snicket
“ I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little girl interrupted me, the baby didn't dash off with the other orphans… Lemony Snicket
“ The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads. Lemony Snicket
“ Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair. Lemony Snicket
“ Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure Lemony Snicket
“ The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The qu… Lemony Snicket
“ If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.""We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a g… Lemony Snicket
“ Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear:"I would rather eat a bowl of vampire batsthan spend an hour with Carmelita Spats."The Baudela… Lemony Snicket
“ Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born,… Lemony Snicket
“ We believe in an aristocracy... Not an aristocracy of power, based on rank or wealth, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate, and the plucky. Our members are found in all nations and cla… Lemony Snicket
“ It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr… Lemony Snicket
“ Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has… Lemony Snicket
