Quotes by Lemony Snicket

You write poetry? Klaus asked.He had read a lot about poets but had never met one.Just a little bit, Isadora said modestly. I write poems down in this notebook. Its an interest of mine.Sappho! Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, Id be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult. In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

Theres nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldnt get in the way of your schoolwork.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...

I think everyones parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

We both wanted to know each others secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know, Violet said, and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesnt know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesnt know what we know.I know, Klause said.I know you know, Violet said

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, I cant wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered, and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

Moxie gave me a small smile. Why do you always say that- which here means?Ill probably outgrow it, I said.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. Its like peeling an onion.

The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Staind witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.