Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. . . We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
