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The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10) QUOTES

The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " There was a bag of coffee beans beneath a harpoon gun and a frozen hunk of spinach, but there was no way to grind the beans into tiny pieces to make coffee. Near a picnic basket and a large bag of mushrooms was a jug of orange juice, but it had been close to one of the bullet holes in the trunk, and so had frozen completely solid in the cold. And after Sunny moved aside three chunks of cold cheese, a large can of water chestnuts, and an eggplant as big as herself, she finally found a small jar of boysenberry jam, and a loaf of bread she could use to make toast, although it was so cold it felt more like a log than a breakfast ingredient. "

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

3 " It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier. "

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

4 " I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them. "

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

5 " The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things "

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

6 " It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much. "

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

7 " Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil. "

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

8 " Very lovely indeed"
—Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her. "

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

9 " Like an envelope, a hollow figurine, and a coffin, a refrigerator can hold all sorts of things, and they may turn out to be very important depending on what kind of day you are having. A refrigerator may hold an icepack, for example, which would be important if you had been wounded. A refrigerator may hold a bottle of water, which would be important if you were dying of thirst. And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, “If you don’t give me a basket of strawberries right now, I’m going to poke you with this large stick. "

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

10 " Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense. "

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

11 " I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands."
Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations."
"But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now. "

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

12 " It is often said that if you have a room with a view, you will feel peaceful and relaxed, but if the room is a caravan hurtling down a steep and twisted road, and the view is an eerie mountain range racing backward away from you, while chilly mountain winds sting your face and toss dust into your eyes, then you will not feel one bit of peace and relaxation. "

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

13 " but he was not looking at the view beneath him. He was looking beside him, where Violet Baudelaire was sitting, "

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

14 " Well-read people are less likely to be evil. "

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

15 " A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead. "

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

16 " If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. "

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

17 " The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy."

"That is a very long theme," the scout said.

"It's a very long book," Klaus replied.

[...]

"Or maybe a daring life of impulsive passion leads to something else," the scout said, and in some cases this mysterious person was right. A daring life of impulsive passion is an expression which refers to people who follow what is in their hearts, and like people who prefer to follow their head, or follow a mysterious man in a dark blue raincoat, people who lead a daring life of impulsive passion end up doing all sorts of things. "

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

18 " Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. "

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

19 " I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person, but it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil. "

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

20 " Fight Fire with Fire "

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