Quotes by Lemony Snicket

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”

“I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.”

“All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found”

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

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”

“If you are going to hear the work of the worlds greatest composers, you will have to allow for a little murder here and there. [] Those who want justice can go to the police, but those who want som...”

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is...”

“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it ...”

“Money is like a childrarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who ha...”

“Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the ...”

“I am alone this evening, and I am alone because of a cruel twist of fate, a phrase which here means that nothing has happened the way I thought it would. Once I was a content man, with a comfortabl...”

“In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last wordsor perhaps someone elsesbefore sl...”

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less ...”

“My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word ...”

“How did you do that? Mr. Poe asked. Nice girls shouldnt know how to do such things.My sister is a nice girl, Klaus said, and she knows how to do all sorts of things.”

“It's hard when you're missing your family," Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.”

“Its hard when youre missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.”

“I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't 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...”

“We'll see what you find out," Stew said. "You'll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you won't really find out, because you'l...”