“An old cowboy song celebrates home on the range, where deer and antelope play, but anyone who has seen deer and antelope knows that when they are frolicking they scarcely look where they are flinging their hooves, which is why cowboys have been pummeled almost to extinction.”
— Lemony Snicket
“Poet Robert Frost died, in 1963. We do not know if it was against his wishes.”
— Lemony Snicket
“One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.”
— Lemony Snicket
“Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
“People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.”
— Lemony Snicket
“Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”
— Lemony Snicket
“Long before history began we men got together apart from the women and did things. We had time.”
— C.S. Lewis
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”
— C.S. Lewis
Loving Twilight, apparently equals just cause for murder.
