People don't always get what they deserve in this world.
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book.
“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.”
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
“Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.”
“Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.”
“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
“Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!”
“When I left, Lydia was prattling about new clothes for her wedding and expressing her ownsatisfaction that she, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, would be the first of them to be married.Wickham ...”
“You don't deserve to understand truth if all that you want is just the normal life.”
“He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on ...”
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”