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Been Quotes by Daniel Handler
- The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as…
- You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see…
- This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to…
- A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding…
- Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for…
- Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been…
- It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked…
- The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing…
- 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…
- Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and…
- It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the…
- Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle…
- I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school,…
- 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 I…
- Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as…
- The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a…
- Twenty-six,†you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.â€Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid…
- I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
- -Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.
- I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
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- You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through. So stop judging me, and… — Nishan Panwar
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle