Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

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For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.