Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 18

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

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

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.

I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.