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Lemony Snicket QUOTES

Lemony Snicket QUOTES

1 " Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too. "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish

2 " Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish

3 " I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

4 " Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)

5 " For Beatrice, when we first met,
I was lonely, and you were pretty.
Now I am pretty lonely. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)

6 " People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)

7 " There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish

8 " Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)

9 " I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)

10 " If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish

11 " If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. "

― Lemony Snicket

12 " A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. "

― Lemony Snicket

13 " This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

14 " They're book addicts. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)

15 " Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

16 " Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish

17 " Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. "

― Lemony Snicket , The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)

18 " One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent. "

― Lemony Snicket , The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)

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20 " Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold. "

― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish