Top 450 Daniel Handler Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”

— Daniel Handler

302. “Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”

— Daniel Handler

303. “One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone’s history.”

— Daniel Handler

304. “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

— Daniel Handler

305. “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”

— Daniel Handler

306. “Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you’d see.”

— Daniel Handler

307. “You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”

— Daniel Handler

308. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

309. “There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.”

— Daniel Handler

310. “I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.”

— Daniel Handler

311. “Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.”

— Daniel Handler

312. “It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.”

— Daniel Handler

313. “Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.”

— Daniel Handler

314. “Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.”

— Daniel Handler

315. “She didn’t look like a girl who would ruin the whole thing at all.”

— Daniel Handler

316. “Forever and ever, world without end.”

— Daniel Handler

317. “If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.”

— Daniel Handler

318. “Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”

— Daniel Handler

319. “The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.”

— Daniel Handler

320. “Are you who I think you are?”

— Daniel Handler

321. “I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn’t.”

— Daniel Handler

322. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

323. “I find reading screenplays difficult, as they’re only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.”

— Daniel Handler

324. “This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.”

— Daniel Handler

325. “They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.”

— Daniel Handler

326. “I think one of the reasons it ended was that his eyes never lit up for me the way they did for classical music. I realize that in the long run I may not be as wonderful as a Brahms symphony but I think I’m good for a Haydn quintet.”

— Daniel Handler

327. “The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”

— Daniel Handler

328. “I’ve never had a musical career. So I think it’s been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it’s sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.”

— Daniel Handler

329. “I like writing for movies. It’s nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it’s nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.”

— Daniel Handler

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

— Daniel Handler

331. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

332. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

333. “The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.”

— Daniel Handler

334. “I’m always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don’t participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what’s better, the book or the movie. So I think it’s interesting when people want to do it.”

— Daniel Handler

335. “I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps.”

— Daniel Handler

336. “When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.”

— Daniel Handler

337. “You know, despite all my world-weariness and cynicism, I think I’ve always believed that there is one person in the universe for whom you are truly meant – and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.”

— Daniel Handler

338. “Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!”

— Daniel Handler

339. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

340. “Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.”

— Daniel Handler

341. “Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.”

— Daniel Handler

342. “So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.”

— Daniel Handler

343. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

344. “I was so angry I knew it would boomerang someplace sometime soon.”

— Daniel Handler

345. “It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.”

— Daniel Handler

346. “Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.”

— Daniel Handler

347. “It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.”

— Daniel Handler

348. “Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.”

— Daniel Handler

349. “She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.”

— Daniel Handler

350. “And then like a song we’d forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.”

— Daniel Handler