821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody’s chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world’s been nightmarished.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman – it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

I know all these facts about you and there is no longer any use for them.

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.

Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.

To stop staring at you, I kept fiddling with the sugar until you stopped my hand with yours.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.