The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

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?

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone...

If you were smart,” Genghis said, “you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.””We never thought of that,” Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a...

Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.

The French expression ‘cul-de-sac’ describes what the Baudelaire orphans found when they reached the end of the dark hallway, and like all French expressions, it is most easily understood when you translate each French word...

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your...

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already...

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

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one’s hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they had been lucky, Carmelita Spats would have not approached their table at this...

El olor de comida cocinándose es a menudo relajante.

I think everyone’s parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

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I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

The world is quiet here.

If you’re not scared, she told me, it’s not bravery.

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you...

Es muy útil, cuando uno es joven, aprender la diferencia entre «literal» y «figurado». Si algo ocurre de forma literal, ocurre realmente; si algo ocurre de forma figurada, es como si estuviese ocurriendo. Si tú...

…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.