Quotes from Daniel Handler

So she loved him. She just did, immediately and again, often and clearly, naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.

She didn't look like a girl who would ruin the whole thing at all.

I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

The screen shows me Portugal. The screen shows me Cairo. They have a thing where you can wander the streets. I can go anywhere I want is what the screen keeps telling me. Try this. Try there. Go around here. The world's wide open. You can wander anyplace and you'll be alone there, too.

I don't have to answer to you," Adam said, instantly and harshly. He brushed his pants off like he'd just buried his mother.

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.

Drei deiner Finger kitzelten mich kurz, mitten am Bauch, dort, wo die Schmetterlinge leben.

one hears it a lot on airplanes:Make sure you have own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

Relax, she said. You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away. When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.

If there were any seeds of doubt in my mind as to whether I really loved Adam or just some image of Adam, they were all killed by the frost that was tonight's dinner party. No, wait, that sounds like it was some cold, deadly evening. I mean the opposite. I guess I mean that if the flower of my love for Adam wass being stunted by any feelings of doubt, then tonight fully fertilized my seed and allowed it to grow. That works if you don't think about the face that fertilizer is made if shit.

Si existe alguna película que, con elegancia e imaginación, profundice en las violentas y delicadas verdades sobre el corazón humano, este humilde crítico aún no la ha descubierto.

What does it mean? Where does something like this come from? How can you find it again,just what you wanted at just the right time? Never,probably. It's empty and nothing now, I don't even know why I kept it, and I'll keep it no more.

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.

No lo sabes…? Pero acabas… acabas de gastarte cincuenta y cinco dólares en este libro. —Lo sé —respondiste—. No pasa nada. —Pero ¿no sabes por qué? —Para hacerte feliz —fue lo único que dijiste, y de repente, Ed, tus palabras me dejaron sin respiración.

Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything? A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.

You fat bitch ! he said, and the party gasped like a Greek chorus.

It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.

I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.

Ok. So the yard is here. It's a football field. Don't call it a yard. Grass where people sit and hang out is a yard. We stole things here, but that doesn't make it a bank.

Te devuelvo la sonrisa y aquella noche, te lo devuelvo todo. Ojalá pudiera.

Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up.

Te quise y ahora te devuelvo tus cosas, las saco de mi vida como a ti...

It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.