Sanctuary is a word which here means a small, safe place in a troubling world. Like an oasis in a vast desert or an island in a stormy sea…
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Lemony Snicket- ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.” (via fatsassyblacklady)
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Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
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Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)
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It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto)
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Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”
― Lemony Snicket
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, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.
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Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (via theblackquill)
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A Pile of Unfortunate Events
