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Come on in,” I said again, and he came on in and I hugged him. I felt his arms, warm through the linen. Suddenly there was a reason to leave the house and see other humans, because some of them were good.

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.

But more often the woman was alone and would walk around naked for some reason, neither beautiful enough nor ugly enough to make sense.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

Nobody knows why men do things.

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.

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, “Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn’t here,” and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

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.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, “This is ghastly.”

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I’m always stunned.

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.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn’t so sure.

I guess it’s funny how life turns out?” she tried. “Not last I checked,” Errol said with a snort.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

After a certain age, you couldn’t even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

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.

I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned, and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing.

It’s okay to like jerks. I mean, it’d be better to like a nice guy, but there aren’t any.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.

This is complicated,” you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. “But,” you said, “no, not but. I love you.

I often can’t remember which scenes are and aren’t in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

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 flames rose bright on everyone’s screens, flickering lipstick red and traffic-cone orange and Lord knows what else, depending on how your television’s colour was.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you’re kidding.

The more I protest that I’m not Lemony Snicket, and that I’m Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

I’m alone. There’s a poem in that, but I don’t want to write it. I don’t want to be someone who spends Saturday night alone at home, writing poems about being alone.

Making you happy isn’t making me happy.

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

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down.

Stories Quotes

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion – just when we’re in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left.

What you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.

Reading Quotes

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.

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

Treat reluctance like seasickness,” Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. “If you feel it, focus on the horizon.

I’m very happy for you guys.” I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

Reading Quotes

Money is like a child – rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one’s time before the candles are extinguished on one’s birthday cake.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

Mostly, it’s flattering to meet fans. As long as it’s in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it’s actually just a history of desperate people.

Reading Quotes

I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that’s why we broke up.

The trouble with talking about irony is, it’s such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you’re a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Sometime during your life – in fact, very soon – you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

Reading Quotes

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

December 5 is what I saw as we walked together on October 5, let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

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