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“You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, “Well, at least I’m not being eaten by a bear.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Tulajdonképpen kedves ember volt, de hát ez aligha elég ebben a világban ahhoz, hogy valaki megmentsen másokat – főleg balszerencsés gyerekeket – a veszélytől.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“فالإحباط شعور عاطفي يثير الاهتمام،ذلك لأنه يخرج أسوأ ما بداخل الشخص المحبط، فالأطفال المحبطون يميلون إلى إلقاء الطعام محدثين فوضى، أما المواطنون المحبطون فإنهم يقومون بإعدام الملك و الملكة حتى يقيموا نظاماً ديمقراطياً، وأما الفراشات المحبطة فتميل إلى التجمع حول المصباح الضوئي جاعلة الرؤية غير واضحة و مغبرة. لكن مع الأسف الشديد فالطفيليات المحبطة لم ليست لطيفة مثل الأطفال أو المواطنين أو حتى الفراشات”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“اشک چیز عجیب غریبی است؛ چون مثل زمین لرزه ... هر موقع که دلش بخواهد، بدون مقدمه یا دلیلی منطقی پیدایش میشود.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Talán nem igazi erkölcsi mondanivaló az, hogy „itt vannak egymásnak”, de nekik, hármuknak legalább vigaszt nyújtott ez a gondolat. Az, hogy „itt vannak egymásnak”, éppen annyit jelentett a számukra, mint a viharban hányódónak a mentőhajó, és ők tudták, hogy ez valójában mekkora szerencse.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“but you can't invent things like time,"Violet said. "You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Ike always loved the sunshine, and I like to imagine that wherever he is now, it's as sunny as can be. Of course, nobody knows what happens to you after you die, but it's nice to think of my husband someplace very, very hot, don't you think?”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Chuni!” Sunny shrieked, which probably meant “Let’s go to the kitchen and get it,”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“We're all afraid," she said firmly..."But that didn't stop us.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“As she ran, Violet couldn't help but remember how she and her siblings had called Uncle Monty's name, early one morning, just before discovering the tragedy that had befallen him. "Aunt Josephine!" she called. "Aunt Josephine!" She couldn't help but remember all the times she had woken up in the middle of the night, calling out the names of her parents as she dreamed, as she so often did, of the terrible fire that had claimed their lives. "Aunt Josephine!" she said, reaching the library door. Violet was afraid that she was calling out Aunt Josephine's name when her aunt could no longer hear it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“She crawled in front of the Baudelaires’ guardian and bared her teeth at Captain Sham.”
― 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

“Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“heart pounding,”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Mr. Poe was kindhearted, but it is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“We're all afraid, but that didn't stop us.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“But that's another error in the note," Klaus said. "It doesn't say unbearable, with a U. It says inbearable, with an I."
"You are being unbearable, with a U," Violet cried.
"And you are being stupid, with an S," Klaus snapped.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Just because something is typed - whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book - this does not mean that it is true.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Bluh bluh bluh," Klaus bluhed.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window