821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.