Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.
But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word ‘bubble’ is in the dictionary, for instance, as is the word ‘peacock,’ the word ‘vacation,’ and the words ‘the’ ‘author’s’ ‘execution’ ‘has’ ‘been’ ‘canceled,’ which makes a sentence that is always pleasant to hear.
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?
Dessert is the most important meal of the day!
People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.
Tea should be bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.
Imagining the worst doesn’t keep it from happening.
It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
If you’re not scared, she told me, it’s not bravery.
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.
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
Deciding on a safe answer to a question is like deciding on a safe ingredient in a sandwich, because if you make the wrong decisions you may find that something horrible is coming out of your mouth.
Nobody can teach you how to like something. You can like it, or you can pretend to like it, in order to make someone happy.
It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe.
As I’m sure you know, a good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always get a good night’s 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 here means ’flunk.
The night has a thousand eyes,’” Kit said hoarsely, and lifted her head to face the villain. The Baudelaires could tell by her voice that she was reciting the words of someone else. “’And the day but one; yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one: yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
I hate it too,” Violet said, and Klaus looked at his older sister with relief. Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
To be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one’s history, and no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.