It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.
To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.
Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
I do what I do,” I said, “in order to do something else.
When you think of me,” she said quietly “think of a food you love very much.
I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far behind. This was nonsense, of course, but there’s nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.
Hal is on his way.” The nurse announced reentering the room.
Klaus had known for all twelve of his years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting – as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.
It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.
It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.
They can teach you anything. That doesn’t mean you learn it. It doesn’t mean you believe it.
I can see the headline now: ’murderer attempts to murder murderer.
The fire was set in the Library of Records by the Baudelaire murderers, and has spread to the Sore Throat Ward, the Stubbed Toe Ward, and the Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn’t Have Ward.
Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
But you can’t invent things like time,′ Violet said. ‘You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window waster. But you can’t invent more time.
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other books. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.
It made the Baudelaire sisters a little sad to see all those books sitting in the library unread and unnoticed, like stray dogs or lost children that nobody wanted to take home.
One of the greatest myths in the world – and the phrase ‘greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying ‘big fat lies’ – is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more.
Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.