Daniel Handler Quotes

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• Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for…
• The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,…
• What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it,…
• We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever…
• But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at…
• For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.
• The last safe place is safe no more.
• Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have…
• If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy…
• The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
• There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but…
• Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot…
• I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire…
• it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of…
• Life never end when you are in it.
• Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
• The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.
• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they…
• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time,…
• Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are…

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