821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

It's full of depressing details about the children's lives, ... and, I'm sorry to say, it's the longest in the series. So in terms of total misery, it's quite a lot to deal with well, both in terms of the number of pages and the amount of misery per page.

The only thing he cares about.

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.

For Beatrice--My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

And she has a fairly consistent political agenda. She's a baby, so individual liberty is a developing idea in her psyche.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.