Daniel Handler Life Quotations

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

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

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

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.

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.