Цитаты из книги The Hostile Hospital

The outside of the store was covered with faded posters advertising what was sold, and by the eerie light of the half-moon, the Baudelaires could see that fresh limes, plastic knives, canned meat, white envelopes, mango-flavored candy, red wine, leather wallets, fashion magazines, goldfish bowls, sleeping bags, roasted figs, cardboard boxes, controversial vitamins, and many other things were available inside the store. Nowhere on the building, however, was there a poster advertising help, which is really what the Baudelaires needed.

Клаус не знал, куда толкать каталку — олафовские приспешники наступали со всех сторон. Он по-прежнему держал ржавый нож кверху, но делал это для самообороны, он и не мыслил, чтобы пустить его в ход даже против таких зловредных личностей. Если бы в ловушке оказался Граф Олаф, он бы, конечно, не колеблясь, обратил ржавый клинок против окружающих его людей. Но Клаус, несмотря на слова лысого, не чувствовал себя злодеем. Он чувствовал себя как человек, который мечтает спастись. И, во второй раз толкая каталку, он уже знал, как это сделать.

— Сработало, — проговорила Вайолет. — Мы их провели. Мы не хуже Олафа научились дурачить людей.

— И маскироваться, — поддержал ее Клаус.

— Анаграммы, — добавила Солнышко.

— И лгать, — напомнила Вайолет, думая о Хэле и хозяине лавки «Последний Шанс», а также обо всех Поющих Волонтерах. — А вдруг мы действительно становимся злодеями?

— Не говори так, — остановил ее Клаус. — Мы не злодеи. Мы хорошие люди. Просто нам приходится пускаться на хитрости, чтобы уцелеть.

— И Олаф тоже пускается на хитрости, чтобы уцелеть, — возразила Вайолет.

When the bald associate had mentioned a sleeping beauty, he was referring to a fairy tale that you have probably heard one thousand times. Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with 'Once upon a time,' and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase 'happily ever after.' The story is usually illustrated with fancy drawings of the napping princess, who always looks very glamorous and elegant, with her hair neatly combed and a long silk gown keeping her comfortable as she snores away for years and years.

With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you don't want to. The word 'cake,' for example, might remind you of your birthday, and the words 'prison warden' might remind you of someone you haven't seen in a very long time. The word 'Beatrice' reminds me of a volunteer organization that was swarming with corruption, and the word 'midnight' reminds me that I must keep writing this chapter very quickly or else I will probably drown.

There are many things in this world I do not know. I do not know how butterflies get out of their cocoons without damaging their wings. I do not know why anyone would boil vegetables when roasting them is tastier. I do not know how to make olive oil, and I do not know why dogs bark before an earthquake, and I do not know why some people voluntarily choose to climb mountains where it is freezing and difficult to breathe, or live in the suburbs, where the coffee is watery and all the houses look alike.