Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 14

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.