Lemony Snicket Appreciation Post (Part 2)

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— Lemony Snicket

The Cast of the Marvelous Marriage

For Beatrice- When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I am pretty lonely.
— Lemony Snicket

As I’m sure you know, a good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
- Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

One can remain alive past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life like the smoke of a great fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your sadness, the way smoke leaves its ashen colors and scents on everything it touches. And you may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp, distracted, but nor cured of your sadness, the a fire department can douse a fire, but never recover what has been burned down.

— Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto