Quotes from Daniel Handler

Te voy a explicar por qué rompimos, Ed. Te voy a contar en esta carta toda la verdad de por qué sucedió. Y la maldita verdad es que te quise demasiado.

Voy a tirar la caja entera de nuevo en tu vida, Ed, cada objeto tuyo y mío. Voy a tirarla en tu porche, Ed, aunque es a ti a quien estoy tirando.

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

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why we broke up.- Min, Why We Broke Up

Allison decided it was okay sort of like if you're in a car and it topples off a hill you decide it's okay to fall, too.

There are stories about people who have loved someone forever after laying eyes on them for a few minutes and then nevermore, but these stories have not happened to anyone we know. No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases

Qué absolutamente erróneo es pensar que es de otra forma, que una caja de basura es un tesoro, que un chico que sonríe es sincero, que un momento agradable es una vida mejor.

It's not like I hadn't seen you before. Everyone had, you're like, I don't know, some movie everyone sees growing up, everybody's seen you, nobody can remember not seeing you. But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

And I hope that someday I'll do another something stupid and I'll have to say it a million times because that's how long it'll be, together with you, Min. With you.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

the dark as it hit late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave.

The chairs and tables stayed sticky, if you know what I mean. If you know what I mean there were five people inside the diner, plus a couple way off in the corner bickering together about something and the cook.

If you know what I mean it felt reckless, the rain and whatnot, but only if your idea of reckless is sitting at a diner and having whatever you felt like.

Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how.

I want you to love me in particular," Helena said. "I'm not the same as an American. I'm my own species and I want you to be picky about it, if that's the expression.

Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.

But I want it anyway, Ed. I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.

I hereby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness.

It was like an apple running for Congress, a bike rack wearing a bathing suit.