Lemony Snicket Quotes

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

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.

Other people think destiny is a time in one's life, such as the moment one becomes an adult, or the instant it becomes necessary to construct a hiding place out of sofa cushions. And still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guide everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish,

The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.