Quotes by Daniel Handler

About Daniel Handler:

Daniel Handler is an American writer. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket, having published children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions under this pseudonym. He has also published adult novels under his real name; his first book The Basic Eight was rejected by many publishers for its dark subject matter. His most recent book is We Are Pirates. Handler has also played the accordion in several bands.
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Dark, light, dark, light, dark-I swung and missed.

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Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we’re so ready for our rebellious phase we can’t help but feel it’s safe, contained. It will tu...

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She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.

Daniel Handler

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

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I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

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She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.

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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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This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too....

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This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed this over. This unites us, this part of love.

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

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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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This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.

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They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

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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 area has been flooded.

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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

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The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

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This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

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If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.

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

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I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Handler
  • DescriptionNovelist, children's writer
  • BornFebruary 28, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist; Musician
  • WorksA Series Of Unfortunate Events; The Basic Eight; Watch Your Mouth; Adverbs