The Baudelaire orphans looked worriedly out the window. They weren't very happy about just being dropped off in a strange place, as if they were a pizza being delivered instead of three children all alone in the world.
Lemony SnicketIf someone had told me, that day at the beach, that before long I'd find myself using my four teeth to scrape the bark off trees, I would have said they were psychoneurotically disturbed.
Lemony SnicketThis knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.
Lemony SnicketA fair deal, as everyone knows, is when both people give something of more or less equal value. If you were bored with laying with your chemistry set, and you gave it to your brother in exchange for his dollhouse, that would be a fair deal. If someone offered to smuggle me out of the country in her sailboat, in exchange for free tickets to an ice show, that would be a fair deal. But working for years in a lumbermill in exchange for the owner's trying to keep Count Olaf away is an enormously unfair deal, and the three youngsters knew it.
Lemony SnicketAppearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
Lemony SnicketTag: appearance
The Baudelaire children wolfed down the peach, and under normal circumstances, it would not have been polite to eat something so quickly and so noisily, particularly in front of someone they did not know very well. But these were not at all normal, so even a manners expert would excuse them for their gobbling.
Lemony SnicketYou might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.
Lemony SnicketTag: fear
No, no,' Phil Said. 'It's fine. I've never liked my left leg so much, anyways.
Lemony SnicketKlaus grinned. 'I'm sorry,' he said, 'but it was a very interesting book, and I'm so pleased that it's coming in handy.
Lemony SnicketRaisins are healthy, and they are inexpensive, and some people may even find them delicious. But they are rarely considered helpful.
Lemony SnicketTag: raisins
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