moghulis:

“It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and
thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down,
through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you
try to readjust the way you thought of things. The Baudelaire orphans
were crying not only for their Uncle Monty, but for their own parents,
and this dark and curious feeling of falling that accompanies every
great loss.”
 

This sums it up so perfectly.

Because I love Niles so much, do you have any favorite quotes from him, overall? For me, the delivery is always similar to my own so I typically don’t laugh as much as I appreciate his general awkwardness. I’m not the only one.

daphnemoon:

Just off the top of my head:

  • “Her lips said no, but her eyes said, ‘Read my lips’.”
  • “Her desk folds out?!” (Also in general every time he misses the point and asks a stupid question.)
  • That long quote where he reads from his diary in The Maris Counselor: “This one’s hard to read… Oh, right! ‘Wept uncontrollably.’”
  • “I had a dream my flour sack was abducted, and the kidnappers started sending me muffins in the mail.”