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Lemony Snicket’s best quotes – Here’s what the A Series of Unfortunate Events author has to say about love, life, death and reading

LEMONY Snicket is famous for writing the darkly funny tale A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Here is a selection of his best quotes and kernels of wisdom...

What has Lemony Snicket said about love?

“Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.” - The Carnivorous Carnival
"I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong." - The Beatrice Letters
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” - Horseradish
"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too." - Horseradish
“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.” -Horseradish

"There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself." - Horseradish
"Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps." - The Blank Book
"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." - The Grim Grotto
"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so." - The Bad Beginning
"Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life." - The End

"Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed." - Horseradish
"If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it." - The Bad Beginning
"Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later." - Horseradish
"Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die...Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact." - The Austere Academy
"It is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed." - The Bad Beginning

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Horseradish
"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." - Lemony Snicket
"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another." - Lemony Snicket
"All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk." - Lemony Snicket
"Well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things." - The Slippery Slope

The third and final season of A Series of Unfortunate Events is available to stream on Netflix now.

This season is made up of seven episodes in total and will see the arrival of new cast members.

Star of Girls Allison Williams, will make an appearance as Lemony's sister Kit.

A Series of Unfortunate Events season 3 on Netflix

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