849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between “literally” and “figuratively.” If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it’s happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

Mcguffin,” Sunny said, which meant “Your scheming means nothing in this place.

Instead of the word ‘love’ there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

Who knows what any of those people or fish would do in our shoes?” Violet said. “It’s impossible to know.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair... It is almost as if happiness is an acquire taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

It doesn’t matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.