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.

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

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

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.