Daniel Handler World Quotations

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

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

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

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

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.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

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 the greater good.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.

E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

The world is quiet here.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything