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41 " What a schmuck! "
― Lemony Snicket , The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
42 " I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs. "
― Lemony Snicket , The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
43 " Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. "
― Lemony Snicket , Horseradish
44 " There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different. "
45 " There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. "
― Lemony Snicket , The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
46 " Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them "
47 " All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure. "
48 " Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read. "
― Lemony Snicket , The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
49 " There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. "
― Lemony Snicket
50 " Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not? "
51 " You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by. "
― Lemony Snicket , The Dark
52 " Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument. "
― Lemony Snicket , Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, #1)
53 " I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother. "
― Lemony Snicket , Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions, #4)
54 " Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. "
55 " You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around. "
― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)
56 " A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. "
57 " No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. "
58 " Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. "
59 " Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter. "
― Lemony Snicket , The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
60 " Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. "