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Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3) QUOTES

Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

3 " Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket? "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

4 " The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are no fun to live through. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

5 " Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

6 " 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 classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between us when we meet... We represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. We're an invincible army, but not a victorious one. We've had different names throughout history, but all the words that describe us are false and all attempts to organize us fail. Right now we're called V.F.D., but all our schisms and arguments might cause us to disappear. It won't matter. People like us always slip through the net. Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

7 " We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

8 " Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

9 " When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

10 " The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

11 " There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

12 " If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

13 " It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

14 " But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

15 " People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

16 " There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

17 " It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

18 " We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

19 " 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 questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

20 " People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed. "

― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)