821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.