Zitate von Daniel Handler

„No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the mountains, and you don't read the sign that says "Beware of Cliff" because you were busy reading a joke book instead, you may suddenly find yourself walking on air rather than on a sturdy bed of rocks. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled "How to Build a Chair" instead of a cookbook, your pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling. And if you insist on reading this book instead of something more cheerful, you will most certainly find yourself moaning in despair instead of wriggling with delight, so if you have any sense at all you will put this book down and pick up another one. I know of a book, for instance, called The Littlest Elf, which tells the story of a teensy-weensy little man who scurries around fairyland having all sorts of adorable adventures, and you can see at once that you should probably read The Littlest Elf and wriggle over the lovely things that happened to this imaginary creature in a made-up place, instead of reading this book and moaning over the terrible things that have happened to the three Baudelaire orphans.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch The Vile Village

„I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„Carmelita Spats, who oughtta be told "Gorgeous" does not start with an M.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch The Grim Grotto

„Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.“

—  Daniel Handler

„Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.“

—  Daniel Handler

„I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„… the moron who thought love was forever.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„You either have the feeling or you don’t.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch Adverbs

„This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist

„How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch Adverbs

„They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch Adverbs

„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.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch Adverbs

„I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.“

—  Daniel Handler, buch 43 Gründe, warum es AUS ist