Quotes from Adverbs — Daniel Handler
born 1970 United States
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29 quotes
Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.
Adverbs (2006)
She said, "We're detectives" in the tone of voice that someone might say, "Making you happy isn't making me happy"
Adverbs (2006)
"Yeah, I have a question," said the guy with the wicked eyes... "My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit."
Adverbs (2006)
Adam hates Tomas and tried to get Eddie to join him in hate. It hasn't worked, although Eddie will admit certain shortcomings, and the two men have not met until now, in the forest, when Adam has decided that Tomas in Eddie's stories and the Tomas in this story are the same man.
Adverbs (2006)
This was that day if you know what I mean.
Adverbs (2006)
Keith has one of those all terrain things that will come in so handy when the world ends and we need a nine-thousand -cylinder engine to drive over those hordes of blood-thirsty mutants crawling all over the video-game landscape.
Adverbs (2006)
It's always dawnest before dark
Adverbs (2006)
The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.
Adverbs (2006)
They are all one, the mothers of us all, like the money you spent. Imagine the vanish of weight if the advice of your mother never existed. They tell us things, unless we have no mothers and either way things turn out such that nothing you've ever heard is ever any help.
Adverbs (2006)