Lemony Snicket

Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question. Instead ask, where is this all heading? And what happens at the end of the line? The final book in Lemony Snicket's bestselling series, All the Wrong Questions.

"Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?"

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Is it more beastly to be a murderer or to let one go free?

I would have to climb up the shaking, smooth wall of the train and hope there was a crack in the window somewhere to slip through. Very easy, if I were a spider.

You got curious, but just make sure that you don't get dead.

His voice sounded like nothing. It was perhaps a little tired, as if he had imitated so many other voices that he could no longer remember what he really sounded like.

She gave me a smile so small and gentle that it made me lonely just to look at it. "With all due respect" she said, "you're a very strange young man, Lemony Snicket."

And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feint forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.

I kept walking, with nothing but solitude for company. "Solitude" is a fancy name for being all by yourself. It's not a bad name, I thought.

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