849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

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    If you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.

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    As if he were reading her thoughts, Klaus put a hand on Violet's shoulder, and she smiled at him. Klaus had known for all his twelve years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting- as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.

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    But happy moments came rarely and unexpectedly in the Baudelaires' lives, and the three siblings had learned to accept them.

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    The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing.

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    And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.

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    The Baudelaire orphans stared at the scrap of paper, and then at Hector, and then at the scrap of paper again. Then they stared at Hector again, and then at the scrap of paper once more and then at Hector once more and then at the scrap of paper once again, and then at Hector once again and then at the scrap of paper one more time.

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    No! The E aisle!""B?" Violet asked, finding it difficult to hear over the sounds of the cabinets."E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!"The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

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