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They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?

Showing up early is one of the signs of a noble person ...

We've discovered a way to dilute

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

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Fight Fire with Fire

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Respecting one's elders is difficult enough, but when they are soaked with water and have proved themselves to be dishonest, it is nearly impossible.

Those two Quagmires will whisk and whisk until they are simply whisked away.

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better.

You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it.

I have a long list of things I'd rather not do.

But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

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.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

It is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Sometimes things can go on right in front of your nose, but you don't know about them.

-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing-

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

Even the most ridiculous of stories can contain a grain of truth.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

Course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So

A wonderful laugh is no excuse for villainous behavior!

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

You're just jealous of me because I'm a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

Just because you can picture something does not make it so.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

You know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Defenestration" is

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

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

Accidents happen all the time.

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

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

She crawled in front of the Baudelaires' guardian and bared her teeth at Captain Sham.

We're an invincible army, but not a victorious one.

I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.

I stayed up all night reading.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and has never hurt a soul.

And Sunny crawled around solemnly biting each of Edgar and Albert's shoes, leaving small teeth marks in each one so she would not be forgotten.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment.

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

I guess we'll be traveling in uncharted waters."
"That'll be fun," Phil said.

No, no,' Phil Said. 'It's fine. I've never liked my left leg so much, anyways.

In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!

Being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear." Violet said. "Until dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can come from this sad beak.

It was impossible to tame, like leeches.

There's a lot that doesn't make sense

O matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Hal is on his way. The nurse announced reentering the room.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

Aunt Josephine had been so careful to avoid anything that she thought might harm her, but harm had still come her way.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

supervision - sprinkling

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart,
and stopped yours.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

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

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

It is remarkable that different people will have different thoughts when they look at the same thing.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers! said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.