“Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see the words 'hee hee hee' in a book, or 'ha ha ha,' or 'har har har,' or 'heh heh… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“A taciturn writer, for instance, might produce only one short poem every ten years, which is unlikely to annoy anyone, whereas someone… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book, but Klaus had no time to be sad.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Page thirteen of the Baudelaire file was not a crowded sheet of paper - there was just one photography and a sentence… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word 'bubble' is in the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“If this were a book written to entertain small children, you would know what would happen next. With the villain's identity and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Like this book, the dictionary shows you that the word "nervous" means "worried about something" -- you might feel nervous, for instance,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
There are those who say life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The room was a library. Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a collection of books belonging to Justice… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“When you read as many books as Klaus Baudelaire, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaires' journey up the Vertical Flame Diversion was so dark and treacherous that it is not enough to write “The Baudelaires'… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Their adventure would be exciting and memorable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with nobody around… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I am very, very sorry to leave you hanging like that, but as I was writing the tale of the Baudelaire orphans, I happened… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Behind these two booths was an enormous roller coaster, a phrase which here means “a series of small carts where people can sit and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“As you and I listen to Uncle Monty tell the three Baudelaire orphans that no harm will ever come to them in the Reptile… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image