Daniel Handler Quotes

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• There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch…
• There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on.…
• ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.
• It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...
• How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.
• So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.
• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to…
• Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.
• You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
• the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
• Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
• But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.
• Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.
• There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find…
• Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one…
• It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows,…
• Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be…
• For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
• It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.
• This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read,…

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