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“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“They're book addicts.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village

“It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“Like all fairy tales, the Story of Sleeping Beauty begins with 'Once upon a time,' and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase 'happily ever after,”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

“His cars were his magic carpets.”
― Daniel Wallace

“There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“It's okay, baby" she said. "We all bounce till we break.”
― John Rector, The Cold Kiss

“Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules

“Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry

“She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry

“Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry

“Light always wins”
― Jason Reynolds, The Boy in the Black Suit

“...death isn't bad. It's not. It's just that life is so good. So damn good that you just wanna hold on to it, and everybody in it. But we can't. But what we can do, is appreciate it more. Y'know, smell the flowers.”
― Jason Reynolds, The Boy in the Black Suit

“If I run I may fall down and break myself.
But could you not be mended? asked the girl.
Oh yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know.”
― Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Sunil rarely got angry when he discovered the secret reasons behind the ways people behaved. Having a sense of how the world operated, beyond its pretense, seemed to him an armoring thing.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity