821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.