“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End.

September 1, 2017 0

“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril.

August 25, 2017 0

“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 that most travelers never used.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope.

July 28, 2017 0

“After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named ‘the water cycle.'”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto.

July 14, 2017 0

“When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival.

June 23, 2017 0

“There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word ‘stop’ written entirely in capital letters STOP.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital.

January 13, 2017 0

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village.

January 8, 2017 0

“The book you are holding with your two hands right now–assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands–is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the word ‘nervous’ and the word ‘anxious.'”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator.

December 5, 2016 0

“If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy.

November 21, 2016 0

“Sometime in your life– in fact, very soon– you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill.

November 4, 2016 0

“If you didn’t know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcase at Damocles Docks, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window.

October 14, 2016 0

“The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room.

September 30, 2016 0

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.

July 30, 2016 0

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