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He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.
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How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?
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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.
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Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.
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I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
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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?
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And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
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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.
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He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.
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Blank paper has always inspired me.
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Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
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Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.
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You either have the feeling or you don't.
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Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept.
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Treat reluctance like seasickness," Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. "If you feel it, focus on the horizon.
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The miracle is the adverbs. The way things are done.
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Stop saying no offense," I said, "when you say offensive things. It's not a free pass.
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Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.
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Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.
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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.
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If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.
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Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
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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.
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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.
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You only love once and and then maybe not again. Not on a day like this. The rain, the rain, the rain.
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Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...
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Maybe," Gwen said, instead of yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
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Anybody might get drunk at the first intrrview.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can cook anything.
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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.
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I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.
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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.
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Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.
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A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.
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Who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.
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Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?
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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.
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You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.
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Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
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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
You either have a feeling or you don't" - Min
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Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.
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Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.
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I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.
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I want you to love me in particular.
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I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps.
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Forever and ever, world without end.
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For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
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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.
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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.
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One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.
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The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.
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Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
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It's okay to like jerks. I mean, it'd be better to like a nice guy, but there aren't any.
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The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.
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I was so angry I knew it would boomerang someplace sometime soon.
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I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
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I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
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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.
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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.
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She licked her lips and then wiped them on her hand, her dark lipstick staining her wrist like a suicide.
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Everybody has a theory.
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She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.
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One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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History is written by the winners
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We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.
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All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.
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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.
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You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love.
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Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how.
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Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!
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You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
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He who wants the world must first escape from it.
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The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
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When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
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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.
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