Daniel Handler Quotes

She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a...

For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tid...

You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike ...

No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the ...

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck abo...

This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we joi...

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, ...

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what y...

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole lif...

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebel...

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was w...

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wo...

I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that...

I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn love...

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th...

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be th...

But before, not so long ago - my own rose from prom still OK on the mirror, dried but not a corpse -...

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer...

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, ...

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither h...

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat...

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k...

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned, and p...

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a ...

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in...

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phras...

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on ...

Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, E...

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wi...

Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the st...

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it tur...

Phillip Murray and Wanda Saxton meet in the last scene under the rainy awning, their wrong wife and ...

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead,...

If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to ...