A Series of Unfortunate Events

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story is there not only no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

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This story will be dreadful, melancholy, and calamitous. A word which here means "dreadful and melancholy."

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Sunny Baudelaire was an infant, a word which here means, "A person of the age at which one mostly speaks in a series of unintelligible shrieks that most people had trouble understanding what she was saying."

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Violet: First of all, first impressions are often wrong. Olaf: Very true. For example, your first impression of me may be that I'm a terrible person. But, in time, Baudelaires, I hope you'll come to realize... you haven't the faintest idea.

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Olaf: Well, I hope I can prove myself to be the father you never had. Klaus: We had a father. Olaf: Yes, I know. And a mother. Remarkable woman. Flammable.

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Hello. My name is Lemony Snicket. And I am sorry to say that the alleged entertainment you are watching is extremely unpleasant. From the beginning of this miserable tale 'til the last melancholy scene, I cannot think of a single line, a single word, that does not chill me to my deepest bones.

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