821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Sometimes words are not enough.

The world is quiet here.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

A mystery is solved with a story.

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.