01UndatedYou 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.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
02UndatedA letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
03UndatedEvery time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
04Undated...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
05UndatedUnless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
06UndatedIt is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
08UndatedI don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
09UndatedIt is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
11UndatedOftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
12UndatedIn some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
13UndatedBut even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
15UndatedWhy does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
16UndatedYou would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
17UndatedThe map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
18UndatedThis is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
19UndatedYou don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
20UndatedI'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little girl interrupted me, the baby didn't dash off with the other orphans. She just sat there like a sack of flour. So I walked over to her and gave her a kick to get her moving.""Excellent idea!" Nero said. "What a wonderful story this is! And then what happened?""Well, at first it seemed like I'd kicked a big hole in the baby," Genghis said, his eyes shining, "which seemed lucky, because Sunny was a terrible athlete and it would have been a blessing to put her out of her misery."Nero clapped his hands. "I know just what you mean, Genghis," he said. "She's a terrible secretary as well.""But she did all that stapling," Mr. Remora protested. "Shut up and let the coach finish his story," Nero said."But when I looked down," Genghis continued, "I saw that I hadn't kicked a hole in a baby. I'd kicked a hole in a bag of flour! I'd been tricked!""That's terrible!" Nero cried.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
21UndatedOne of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
23UndatedCount Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?Lemony Snicket / quote ↗
