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I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.
Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.
Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.
Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.
This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.
The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together
Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.
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.
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.
I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.
I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.
There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.
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.
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.