849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket


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    When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

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    It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

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    There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard.

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    Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked.Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No," he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs.

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    But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

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