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He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud. — Daniel Handler

Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green. — Daniel Handler

You can't mind these things, you just can't, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans. — Daniel Handler

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again. — Daniel Handler

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that — Daniel Handler

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you. — Daniel Handler

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve? — Daniel Handler

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead. — Daniel Handler

Take it back, Ed. Take it all back. — Daniel Handler

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire. — Daniel Handler

And I almost said I love you. Instead I said nothing and you said nothing. — Daniel Handler

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far. — Daniel Handler

It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then? — Daniel Handler

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life. — Daniel Handler

It was like an apple running for Congress, a bike rack wearing a bathing suit. — Daniel Handler

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat. — Daniel Handler

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean. — Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me. — Daniel Handler

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me. — Daniel Handler

You either have the feeling or you don't. — Daniel Handler

Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept. — Daniel Handler

Treat reluctance like seasickness," Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. "If you feel it, focus on the horizon. — Daniel Handler

The miracle is the adverbs. The way things are done. — Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense," I said, "when you say offensive things. It's not a free pass. — Daniel Handler

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could. — Daniel Handler

Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough. — Daniel Handler

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way. — Daniel Handler

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything. — Daniel Handler

If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know. — Daniel Handler

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with. — Daniel Handler

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much. — Daniel Handler

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily. — Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding. — Daniel Handler

You only love once and and then maybe not again. Not on a day like this. The rain, the rain, the rain. — Daniel Handler

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ... — Daniel Handler

Maybe," Gwen said, instead of yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. — Daniel Handler

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail. — Daniel Handler

Anybody might get drunk at the first intrrview. — Daniel Handler

Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single. — Daniel Handler

The bus driver gave me a why-the-hell-aren't-you-at-school look and I gave him a shut-up-you're-a-bus-driver-so-bus-drive look right back. — Daniel Handler

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do. — Daniel Handler

I can cook anything. — Daniel Handler

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about. — Daniel Handler

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is. — Daniel Handler

I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward. — Daniel Handler

I don't have to answer to you, Adam said, instantly and harshly. He brushed his pants off like he'd just buried his mother. — Daniel Handler

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer. — Daniel Handler

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says. — Daniel Handler

Who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out. — Daniel Handler

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery? — Daniel Handler

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else. — Daniel Handler

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head. — Daniel Handler

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better. — Daniel Handler

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you. — Daniel Handler

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world. — Daniel Handler

You either have a feeling or you don't" - Min — Daniel Handler

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you. — Daniel Handler

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone. — Daniel Handler

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children. — Daniel Handler

I want you to love me in particular. — Daniel Handler

I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps. — Daniel Handler

Forever and ever, world without end. — Daniel Handler

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are. — Daniel Handler

Call me later, you'd said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard. — Daniel Handler

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. — Daniel Handler

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time. — Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie. — Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies — Daniel Handler

It's okay to like jerks. I mean, it'd be better to like a nice guy, but there aren't any. — Daniel Handler

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. — Daniel Handler

I was so angry I knew it would boomerang someplace sometime soon. — Daniel Handler

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
to. — Daniel Handler

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. — Daniel Handler

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is. — Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. — Daniel Handler

It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place. — Daniel Handler

She licked her lips and then wiped them on her hand, her dark lipstick staining her wrist like a suicide. — Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory. — Daniel Handler

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters. — Daniel Handler

One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them. — Daniel Handler

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings. — Daniel Handler

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse. — Daniel Handler

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are. — Daniel Handler

History is written by the winners — 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. — Daniel Handler

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all. — Daniel Handler

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back. — Daniel Handler

You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. — Daniel Handler

Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how. — Daniel Handler

Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. — Daniel Handler

Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer! — Daniel Handler

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. — Daniel Handler

He who wants the world must first escape from it. — Daniel Handler

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. — Daniel Handler

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up. — Daniel Handler

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down. — Daniel Handler

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about. — Daniel Handler