Lemony Snicket Quotes - Page 3

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.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

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.

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things."

"But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.

… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

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.

Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

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.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

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

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper.

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