Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 17

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Twenty-six,” you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.”Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid and I’ll have to say it a million times because that’s how long it’ll be, together with you, Min. With you.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

You can't believe everything you read.

Accidents happen all the time.

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.