"The Slippery Slope" Quotes

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

It is one of the strange truths of this world that while the Count's car seemed enormous from the outside, it was rather cramped within. This is often the case with people as well.

The Baudelaire orphans were simply trying to survive, and they had learned that survival meant trying, at all costs, to avoid Count Olaf.

It is the nature of secrets to be revealed.

The only way to find out what happens next is to turn the page, and the only way to turn the page is to keep reading.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

The world is full of secrets, and some of them are dark and dangerous.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life, that people often say things they know to be false, in the hope that they will be true.

The world is like a racetrack, and you are the racehorse, and it is our job to keep you from getting off track.

The Baudelaires had been in situations like this before, where the only way out seemed to be in, and the only way in seemed to be up.