Quotes by Lemony Snicket

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasnt so sure.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that dont.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didnt matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldnt do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I dont know why I bother.

Well see what you find out, Stew said. Youll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you wont really find out, because youll be dead. Get it? What I mean is, itll kill you when I throw you from this train so youll be in no state to find out what it feels like. Get it? Due to your death by falling from a train.

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mothers wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you dont read is often as important as what you do read.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you dont care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

Im not a stranger, I said, and pointed to his book. Im someone who reads the same authors you do.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The world is full of disappointment, I said.Yes, she said, I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?No, I said. Theres more than that.Like what?Like good books, I said, and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once.