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Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
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Klaus: Maybe I don't know what 'cakesniffer' means, but I think I can translate our new school's motto... If I'm not mistaken, 'Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die'.
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All love gets over, and we must get over it.
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For Beatrice-You will always be in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave. -Lemony Snicket
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Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
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judgmentally, judgmentally, judgmentally I would believe in you and sword fight others who did not, any necessary sacrifice if you were in the mood for that.
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Mike could see the fellow cooked and ate and sat on a sofa and put his feet up on the table it magazines. Mike didn't care which ones the fellow subscribed to, because Mike had subscribed to the fellow.
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
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Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up - and down - a range of strange and distressing mountains.
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'I know' Helena said and this is another example of why behave this way? Things just poured out of her mouth lately, like vomit, and sometimes it actually was.
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My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
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Blank paper has always inspired me.
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All four of them have completely abandoned one another.
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For Beatrice-I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.
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Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers.
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The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.
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I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
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For Beatrice-When we were together I felt breathless. Now, you are.-Lemony Snicket
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I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.
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'I love you, too' David said and took the bottle.'I want you to love me in particular,' Helena said
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Because of the information discussed on page nine, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown.
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As the aphorism says, If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. -Lemony Snicket
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It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
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