My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my...

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean we should all...

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, “The world is quiet here,” as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

La adopción es una decisión muy importante, algo que no suele suceder de forma impulsiva. Estoy seguro de que vosotros habéis deseado en algún momento de vuestra vida haber sido educados por gente distinta a...

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session...

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might...

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you...

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

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...

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket,” she said. “There’s no reason to share it with me.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

«Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de...

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road...

It’s hard when you’re missing your family,” Pip said, and started the motor. ” You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one’s time before the candles...

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don’t stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about,...

…in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

If you have walked into a museum recently – whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police – you may have noticed a type of painting known as...

Are you ready?” Klaus asked finally.”No,” Sunny answered.”Me neither,” Violet said, “but if we wait until we’re ready we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let’s go.

You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice...

and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody...

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

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.

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

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone...

pero es una triste realidad de la vida que, cuando alguien ha perdido a un ser querido, a veces los amigos le esquivan, justo en el momento en que su presencia es mucho más necesaria.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

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.

When somebody is a little bit wrong – say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk – it is often quite easy to explain to them how and...

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.