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?
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 f...
You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
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 a...
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.
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.
People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.
It's hard when you're missing your family," Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.
You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.
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.
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.
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...
If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.
Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked. Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No," he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs.
The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.
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.
