849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before than, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar marks the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area.

When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I am pretty lonely.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

In the days that followed, the Baudelaire orphans had pits in their stomachs. In Sunny’s case it was understandable, because when Klaus had divided the peach, she had gotten the part with the pit.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course!

As I’m sure you know, a good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which here means ’flunk.

A good breakfast is better than a bad one, like a good book is better than having your toe chopped off.

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means ’place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.