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Lemony Snicket

  • kilakerenabishas quoted12 days ago
    something happens figuratively, it feels like it's happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy,
  • kilakerenabishas quoted12 days ago
    You're not going to marry Violet figuratively—you're going to marry her literally!
  • kilakerenabishas quoted10 days ago
    But I consider her to be a stick behind a stubborn mule.”
  • kilakerenabishas quoted9 days ago
    “Casing the joint” means observing a particular location in order to formulate a plan. For instance, if you are a bank robber—although I hope you aren't—you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it. Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary.
  • kilakerenabishas quoted8 days ago
    The particular knot she was using was called the Devil's Tongue.
  • kilakerenabishas quoted8 days ago
    and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice.
  • kilakerenabishas quoted8 days ago
    don't know, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss, of course I understand she's yours. Yes, boss.”
  • kilakerenabishas quoted8 days ago
    so high up,” he said. “You must have been terrified.”

    “It was very scary,” she admitted, “but not as scary as the thought of marrying Count Olaf.”
  • kilakerenabishas quoted8 days ago
    “I'm sorry your invention didn't work,” Klaus said sadly.

    “The invention worked fine,” Violet said, rubbing her sore shoulder.
  • kilakerenabishas quoted4 days ago
    “Like most people,” Violet said, “I am right handed. But I signed the document with my left hand.”
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