"The Ersatz Elevator" Quotes
In "The Ersatz Elevator," the Baudelaire orphans face a series of unfortunate events involving a sinister plot, a fake elevator, and nefarious guardians in a high-rise apartment building.
fiction | 259 pages | Published in 2001
Quotes
There's no point in pretending to be brave when you really aren't.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Describing something as crucial means that if you don't do it, you are in deep trouble.
If we didn't have any secrets, we wouldn't need to find things out.
Just because something is typed, whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book, this does not mean it is true.
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the world's problems at a table.
The sad truth is that the truth is sad.
There are some who say that happiness is a state of mind, but these people are wrong.
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets.
The trouble with wicked people is that they sometimes seem like nice people at first.
