#Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[thehopefulquotes]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[thoughtkick]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[surqrised]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[resqectable]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[stay-close]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[perfectfeelings]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[nightlyquotes]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[perfeqt]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[ven10]

Something about the Baudelaires+the tragedies they face being associated with fire (the fire that destroyed their home, the fire at the Caligari Carnival, the fire at the hotel Denouement…) vs the Quagmires+their tragedies being associated with water (Duncan+Isadora being kidnapped+stashed inside a statue of a fish then later inside of a fountain, the Baudelaires finding Quigley in the Hinterlands surrounded by ice, Quigley+Violet having a key moment on a frozen waterfall, Quigley+the Baudelaires escaping via said waterfall, Quigley being seperated from the Baudelaires by the Stricken Stream, Quigley sending a telegram to Violet whilst she is in a submarine fully submerged in water, the Baudelaires almost reuniting with Quigley after travelling in the depths of the sea in ‘The Grim Grotto’, in ‘The Penultimate Peril’ when it’s revealed that Duncan+Isadora are in danger of drowning as eagles attack their self-sustaining hot air mobile home which is flying over the sea and,of course, all three Quagmire triplets becoming lost (in the sea) to the great unknown.

This is especially evident in ‘The Vile Village’ when the Baudelaires have just rescued the Quagmires who at that point were “two dripping figures” bc of the “rushing water” of the fountain they were trapped in which is then contrasted, merely one paragraph later, by the man who causes the majority of the Baudelaires troubles brandishing fire, “Detective Dupin, holding a torch and heading straight toward the Baudelaire orphans.” [evidence taken from pages 210+211 of ‘The Vile Village’.]

This could represent a number of things:

1: The Quagmires trying to help the Baudelaires like how water extinguishes fire.

2: The cold way in which Olaf uses the Quagmires solely for their fortune and his own sadistic purpose as opposed to his hunting down of the Baudelaires being fuelled by burning revenge.

It’s also interesting how Duncan+Isadora are associated with water whereas Quigley is initially associated with ice in TSS until he+the Baudelaires begin to rely on each other and then he is associated with water (the ice of the stricken stream cracking and Quigley being carried away with it). Due to this, there is solid reasoning to view water in asoue as a metaphor for friendship (at least in the case of the Quagmires).

[thehopefulquotes]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[thoughtkick]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[quotefeeling]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[surqrised]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[paigesqualor]

esmé squalor 🗞️🍸⚜️🤍

[the-nonsense-is-mine]

nothing will ever make me angrier than Netflix taking Jacques and Jerome, with their incredibly compelling and thematically important relationship that is never explored in the ASOUE books because it's already over and it's the recollection of it that deeply affects and reveals their characters, putting them in the same room in the same conversation in TEE part 2 and not even acknowledging that they know each other

[nightlyquotes]

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator