Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #6: The Ersatz Elevator

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  • juliasegura97has quoted5 years ago
    “Me neither,” Violet said, “but if we wait until we’re ready we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
  • fall pageshas quoted4 years ago
    I am sorry to say that Mr. Poe had not done a very good job so far, and that the Baudelaires had learned that the only thing they could rely on with Mr. Poe was that he always had a cough
  • fall pageshas quoted4 years ago
    and if I were you I would drop this book right out of your two or more hands and curl up with a dictionary instead, because all the miserable words I must use to describe these unfortunate events are about to reach your eyes.
  • Elena Pérezhas quoted4 years ago
    If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large chart divided into squares, with different numbers and letters in each of them. This chart is called the table of the elements, and scientists like to say that it contains all the substances that make up our world. Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time, and it is easy to see that they are wrong about the table of the elements. Because although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table of the elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
  • Elena Pérezhas quoted4 years ago
    “It’s not just the size of her teeth,” Violet said, “it’s the size of her courage, and the size of her concern for her siblings.”
  • juliasegura97has quoted5 years ago
    No matter how many misfortunes had befallen them and no matter how many ersatz things they would encounter in the future, the Baudelaire orphans knew they could rely on each other for the rest of their lives, and this, at least, felt like the one thing in the world that was true.
  • Tinahas quoted7 years ago
    and like all French expressions, it is most easily understood when you translate each French word into English
  • Анна П.has quoted7 years ago
    But right now, alcoholic martinis are out. Aqueous martinis are in. An aqueous martini is simply cold water served in a fancy glass with an olive in it, so it’s perfectly legal for children as well as for adults.
  • Humsterrhas quoted8 years ago
    “Don’t talk nonsense,” Esmé said crossly. “If we give money to poor people, then they won’t be poor anymore.
  • Humsterrhas quoted8 years ago
    A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all of the man-and woman-eating lions were running around loose
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