“It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Shit, I guess I already loved you then. Doomed like a wineglass knowing it’ll get dropped someday, shoes that’ll be scuffed in… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely reread, in my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The clock in his car hadn't adjusted to daylight saving time yet and said it was four-fifteen when it was really five-fifteen.… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Here it is undeveloped, a roll of film with all its mysteries locked up. I never took it anyplace, just left it… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
“The matches were a little 'he loves me, he loves me not,' but then I saw right on the box that I had twenty-four,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
