Orphans Quote by Lemony Snicket

“… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.”

— Lemony Snicket

“It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your…

— Lemony Snicket

“Mr. Poe couldn't think of anything else to say that might have comforted the Baudelaire orphans, but I wish now that I had the…

— Lemony Snicket

“If this were a book written to entertain small children, you would know what would happen next. With the villain's identity and evil plans…

— Lemony Snicket

“The Baudelaires' journey up the Vertical Flame Diversion was so dark and treacherous that it is not enough to write “The Baudelaires' journey up…

— Lemony Snicket

“The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again.”

— Nathan Leslie

“The good people who are publishing this book have a concern that they have expressed to me. The concern is that readers like yourself…

— Lemony Snicket

“As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.”

— Lemony Snicket

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.”

— David Gordon