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Lemony Snicket Quotes

Total quotes: 79
“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice
Tagged: Missing Someone, Missing You
“Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can’t always rely on people.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Tagged: Loneliness, Thoughts, realizations
“It had been a long day, and I don’t mind saying that I cried a little bit. There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.”
— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Tagged: Crying, Showing weakness, strength, Expressing sadness
“They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”
— Lemony Snicket, "Who Could That Be at This Hour?"(All the Wrong Questions)
Tagged: library, Knowledge, information, Books
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
— Lemony Snicket, The End(A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
Tagged: Poetic, Sadness, Pain
“Sometimes words are not enough.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: Words
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Life, Literature, humor
“You’ll have to help yourself.”
— Lemony Snicket, "Shouldn't You Be in School?"(All the Wrong Questions)
Tagged: Self-Help, Self-motivation, help
“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Tradition
“Sometimes a story ends before it’s over with unanswered questions, unresolved plots, lingering suspense, blanketing the world like snow. Or like smoke from a suspicious fire.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: story ends, Unanswered Questions, lingering suspense, Simile Examples, smoke, Fire
“Some things in life are difficult to understand, even after years and years of thinking about them while wandering alone through desolate landscapes, usually during the off-season.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Understand, difficult, years, wandering, desolate, Landscapes
“Sitting with friends, talking about something important is one of the most powerful and necessary forces in the world. It is the way so many noble organizations begin, with a conversation between associates or even brothers.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: Friends, Powerful, Forces, World, noble, Organization
“Perhaps the hardest part of life on the lam is that you have to keep moving, often in a direction that seems wrong, dangerous or an agonizing combination of both.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: Life, Direction, Wrong, Dangerous Game
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: Miracles, Simile Examples, Meatballs
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Stories, Story, not much happiness, No happy ending
“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
Tagged: Clingy, Missing Someone, Romantic Feelings
“Having a brilliant idea isn’t as easy as turning on a light. But just as a single bulb can illuminate even the most depressing of rooms, the right idea can shed light on a depressing situation.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Brilliant, idea, Light, single bulb, depressing, situation, Metaphor Examples
“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Bad News, Good News, Sadness, Misery, Grief
“Unless you are a murderer or a taxidermist, it is rare to have actual skeletons in your closet as opposed to metaphorical ones.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: murderer, taxidermist, rare, Skeletons, metaphorical
“If you have ever lost a friend, you know that it makes your world feel incomplete, like a puzzle with a piece missing, or one half of a broken spyglass.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: lost, Friend, Incomplete, Puzzle
“Trouble and strife can cover this world like the dark of night, or like smoke from a suspicious fire. And when that happens, all good, true and decent people know that it’s time to volunteer.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: trouble, Strife, dark, Night, Simile Examples, Volunteer
“To Beatrice – My love flew like a butterfly, until death swooped down like a bat.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: Love, Simile Examples, Butterfly, Death, bat
“There are times when the entire world seems wrong. The way a reptile room without any reptiles seems wrong. The way a bookshelf without any books seems wrong. Or a loved one’s house without the loved one.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Reptile Room
Tagged: Wrong, entire world, imbalanced, reptile, Books, loved one
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Slippy Slope
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Fate
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, careless, Love, Parenting
“They didn’t understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don’t understand doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Understanding, Life
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 1-13
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Love
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: Waiting, Taking Action, motivation, Self-Direction
“Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Politeness, Death, humor
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Optimism
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Quest, Discovery, Timing, Waiting, Taking Action, Being Proactive
“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Control, Fate, Helplessness
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Misery, Sadness, Loss, Pain, Grief
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Happiness, Sadness, Grief, Despair, Pain
“There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.”
— Lemony Snicket, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
Tagged: Crying, Sadness, Tears
“The best way to keep a secret is to tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 1-13
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Secret, Kidding
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Hope For The Best, strange
“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
— Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events
“If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. Let's go.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 1-13
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Waiting, Life
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Books, Literature
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