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“Hello, freaky peoples!”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. For instance, if you wake up to the sound of twittering birds, and find yourself in an enormous canopy bed, with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of freshly made muffins and hand-squeezed orange juice on a silver tray, you will know that your day will be a splendid one. If you wake up to the sound of church bells, and find yourself in a fairly big regular bed, with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of hot tea and toast on a plate, you will know that your day will be O.K. And if you wake up to the sound of somebody banging two metal pots together, and find yourself in a small bunk bed, with a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all, you will know that your day will be horrid.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”
― Walt Whitman, Drum Taps

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in the very moment when I love them--"

"You beat them." For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding.

"No, you don't understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game