When you think of me," she said quietly "think of a food you love very much.
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The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabinet wasn’t thinking anything. But I was thinking, is this the world? Is this really the place in which you’ve ended up, Snicket? It was a question that struck me, as it might strike you, when something ridiculous was going on, or something sad. I wondered if this was really where I should be, or if there was another world someplace, less ridiculous and less sad. But I never knew the answer to the question. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do. In the meantime, I was stuck in the police station, doing something so ridiculous it felt sad, and feeling so sad it was ridiculous. The world of the police station, the world of Stain’d-by-the-Sea and all of the wrong questions I was asking, was was the only world I could see.
Lemony SnicketI'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
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I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
Lemony SnicketTags: deception wickedness buildings wicked-places
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...
Lemony SnicketTags: compliments flattery
[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.
Lemony SnicketTags: colors color ice-cream ice-cream-is-love
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
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Aha!"
My chaperone looked at me like I should aha! back, but all I could manage was a quiet "ah." I made a note to ha later.
As anyone who's ever been to a doctor knows, doctors are not necessarily your friends, any more than mail deliverers are you friends, or butchers are you friends, or refrigerator repair-people are you friends. A doctor is a man or woman whose job it is to make you feel better, that's all, and if you've ever had a shot you know that the statement 'Doctors can't hurt you' is simply absurd.
Lemony SnicketThe expression 'quiet as mice' is a puzzling one, because mice can often be very noisy, so people who are being quite as mice may in fact be squeaking and scrambling around. The expression 'quiet as mimes' is more appropriate, because mimes are people who perform theatrical routines without making a sound. Mimes are annoying and embarrassing, but they are much quieter than mice, so 'quiet as mimes' is a more proper way to describe how Violet and Sunny got up from their bunk, tiptoed across the dormitory, and walked out into the night.
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