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She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.
It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.
What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.
Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.
Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.
There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.
Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.
The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.
Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.
...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.
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.
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.
I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.
Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.
There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
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.
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.