Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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More Quotes by Lemony Snicket

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

- Lemony Snicket

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 seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

- Lemony Snicket

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

- Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

- Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

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

- Lemony Snicket

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

- Lemony Snicket

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

- Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

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 who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

- Lemony Snicket

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

- Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

- Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.