--- title: "16 Way Quotes By Daniel Handler" description: "16 Way quotes by Daniel Handler. Plus more from Daniel Handler and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/daniel-handler-1043_and-love_you-meet-people-who-are-in-pain-in-life_657546.jpg" --- > [You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/you-meet-people-who-are-in-pain-in-life-and-love-and-you-forgive-them/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/daniel-handler-1043_and-love_you-meet-people-who-are-in-pain-in-life_657546.jpg) > [The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-miracle-is-the-adverbs-the-way-things-are-done/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a3/daniel-handler-1043_adverbs_the-miracle-is-the-adverbs-the-way-thing_1134069.jpg) > [Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/love-was-in-the-air-so-both-of-us-walked-through-love-on-our-way-to/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0c/daniel-handler-1043_air_love-was-in-the-air-so-both-of-us-walked_346207.jpg) > [There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/there-is-only-laughing-across-the-land-as-the-car-moves-you-along-on/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95a/daniel-handler-1043_car_there-is-only-laughing-across-the-land-a_2306424.jpg) > [The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-whole-thing-of-what-i-ve-been-trying-you-said-is-that-you-re/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/daniel-handler-1043_asking_the-whole-thing-of-what-i-ve-been-trying_111774.jpg) > [We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/we-laughed-the-rest-of-the-way-because-the-point-of-this-story-is-it/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/daniel-handler-1043_cookies_we-laughed-the-rest-of-the-way-because-t_5058.jpg) > [I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-have-produced-things-that-i-would-say-were-sincerely-cheerful-but/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/daniel-handler-1043_cheerful_i-have-produced-things-that-i-would-say_2001193.jpg) > [It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the-people-or-the-potatoes-it-is/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/daniel-handler-1043_adverbs_it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the_2398745.jpg) > [How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/how-wrong-to-think-i-was-anyone-else-like-thinking-grass-stains-make/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/daniel-handler-1043_beautiful_how-wrong-to-think-i-was-anyone-else-lik_1180420.jpg) > [You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/you-might-find-it-difficult-to-see-anything-but-your-own-sadness-the/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/697/daniel-handler-1043_black_you-might-find-it-difficult-to-see-anyth_3153880.jpg) > [The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-way-sadness-works-is-one-of-the-strange-riddles-of-the-world-if/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/daniel-handler-1043_enormous_the-way-sadness-works-is-one-of-the-stra_2113891.jpg) > [The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-way-that-the-stories-go-in-the-snicket-books-is-just-the-way/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/768/daniel-handler-1043_assessment_the-way-that-the-stories-go-in-the-snick_2005709.jpg) > [We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/we-all-know-of-course-that-we-should-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d71/daniel-handler-1043_courses_we-all-know-of-course-that-we-should-nev_1753734.jpg) > [I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-was-in-a-pharmacy-and-i-saw-the-warnings-on-the-backs-of-poisonous/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/daniel-handler-1043_assessment_i-was-in-a-pharmacy-and-i-saw-the-warnin_1279254.jpg) > [I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-waited-just-to-see-you-at-that-kind-of-peace-i-wanted-to-be-beside/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a79/daniel-handler-1043_bones_i-waited-just-to-see-you-at-that-kind-of_1699339.jpg) > [I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-d-made-pretty-clear-to-the-people-at-paramount-and-dreamworks-that/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e1/daniel-handler-1043_clear_i-d-made-pretty-clear-to-the-people-at-p_2790617.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Daniel Handler > [We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/we-laughed-the-rest-of-the-way-because-the-point-of-this-story-is-it/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-started-making-plans-thinking-we-would-get-that-far/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-can-t-imagine-why-you-would-want-to-take-your-child-to-see-what-the/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [“All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/all-the-deaths-are-dead-for-nothing-but-you-re-not-dead-at-all/) [daniel handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [“I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-love-you-so-soundly-and-i-will-do-anything-to-drag-you-forward/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-d-ruin-any-day-all-my-days-for-those-long-nights-with-you-and-i-did/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/chestnuts-in-stuffing-tastes-like-someone-chewed-up-a-tree-branch-and/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/lemony-snicket-now-i-m-told-the-books-of-course-starting-from-the/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-matches-were-a-little-he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not-but-then-i-saw/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-didn-t-like-books-where-people-played-on-a-sports-team-and-won-a/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-love-no-one-but-you-i-have-discovered-but-you-are-far-away-and-i-am/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-basic-eight-and-watch-your-mouth-both-have-first-person-voices/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-long-goodbye-is-one-book-i-like-to-read-over-and-over-again-and/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/the-whole-thing-of-what-i-ve-been-trying-you-said-is-that-you-re/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) > [ I wrote a comedy, which hopefully \[Rick director\] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-wrote-a-comedy-which-hopefully-rick-director-curtiss-clayton-will/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/daniel-handler/#itemlist", "name": "16 Way Quotes By Daniel Handler", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Daniel Handler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/you-meet-people-who-are-in-pain-in-life-and-love-and-you-forgive-them/", 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6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. 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It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Daniel Handler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the-people-or-the-potatoes-it-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/daniel-handler-1043_adverbs_it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the_2398745.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/daniel-handler-1043_adverbs_it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the_2398745.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/daniel-handler-1043_adverbs_it-is-not-the-diamonds-or-the-birds-the_2398745.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. 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