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Daniel Handler is an American author and musician, best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket. His popular series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" has captivated millions of young readers worldwide. He also writes for adults and is recognized for his unique, darkly humorous style. Here are 223 of his quotes:

Let's go, let's go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far. (Daniel Handler)

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

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Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

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I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

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...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

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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.

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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?

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Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.

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Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

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A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

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who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out. (Daniel Handler)

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

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I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let's get out of here. I'm ready, I'm finished, let's not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

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

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So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

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

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I liked, I admit, that we didn't pretend there hadn't been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.

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The whole thing of what I've been trying,” you said, "is that you're different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don't think about them, because of the way you are.

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If he's not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It's boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.

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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.

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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)

It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

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

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Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else. Ishmael outwitted me, and put me in this cage. But I know how to outwit him and all his islander friends. If you let me out, I can be king of Olaf-Land, and you three can be my new henchfolk.

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Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers.

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: February 28, 1970
Quotes count: 223
Wikipedia: Daniel Handler

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