821 Quotes by 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.

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

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

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.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.