Quotes from Daniel Handler

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

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

...the moron who thought love was forever.

This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

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.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.