The ​Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events 10.) 78% 11 csillagozás

For Beatrice –
When we first met, you were pretty, and I was lonely.

Now I am pretty lonely.

„I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person,” the boy said. „But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

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Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

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Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

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If they're friends of Count Olaf's, „ Kevin said, "how bad could they be?”
The members of the troupe looked at one another, but no one answered the ambidextrous person's question.

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After all, there's never anything terribly important in the refigerator.

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The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing util the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things and wearing ugly clothing, and so few volunteers who are able to stop them.

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