theunrequiteddreams

From Snicket to Beatrice

• These dedications are made to the first Beatrice Baudelaire (the mother of the Baudelaire orphans) by Lemony Snicket in each book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
• The Bad Beginning: To Beatrice - darling, dearest, dead.
• The Reptile Room: For Beatrice - My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.
• The Wide Window: For Beatrice – I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.
• The Miserable Mill: To Beatrice – My love flew like a butterfly. Until death swooped down like a bat. As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said, "That's the end of that."
• The Austere Academy: For Beatrice – You will always be in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave.
• The Ersatz Elevator: For Beatrice – When we met my life began, Soon afterward, yours ended.
• The Vile Village: For Beatrice – When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
• The Hostile Hospital: For Beatrice – Summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you is even colder.
• The Carnivorous Carnival: For Beatrice – Our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.
• The Slippery Slope: For Beatrice – When we first met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now I am pretty lonely.
• The Grim Grotto: For Beatrice – Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
• The Penultimate Peril: For Beatrice - No one could extinguish my love, or your house.
• The End: For Beatrice - I cherished, you perished. The world's been nightmarished.
• Chapter Fourteen: For Beatrice - We are like boats passing in the night - particularly you.