-LEMONY SNICKET
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
“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 them.”
“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I’ll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I’ll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.”
-Lemony Snicket (The Ersatz Elevator)
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....”
"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.”
“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”