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Quotes from Adverbs — Daniel Handler

born 1970 United States

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That's always where the love goes, with somebody else away from me.

Adverbs (2006)

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

Adverbs (2006)

All love gets over, and we must get over it.

Adverbs (2006)

All four of them have completely abandoned one another.

Adverbs (2006)

God, or somebody, what is it with terrible things? If you made this world why not a better one?

Adverbs (2006)

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

Adverbs (2006)

This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.

Adverbs (2006)

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.

Adverbs (2006)

What he'd just said was "Who cares?" and nobody wants to hear that.

Adverbs (2006)

Wedding after wedding after wedding and then yours - your wedding? Would that make you what they're now calling happy?

Adverbs (2006)

Over the years they had developed a layer of sincerity over the irony over the sincerity. It was an irony sandwich, then, which tasted mostly like sincerity, like a cheap, bad sandwich.

Adverbs (2006)

"Oh my god!" Hillary is standing in the doorway of the bathroom of the bathroom which on one had is surprising but there's the other hand, too.

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They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost.

Adverbs (2006)

I find you interesting, Joe, so nearly everything you say will be interesting too. I love you. I could say I'm lonely but that's not the only reason.

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They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.

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Allison squinted at the strange, catastrophic sky, and took another step, another step, another step, because in the future - she could see it - this would not be happening.

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South San Francisco The Industrial City is ugly as sin but somebody lives there: Allison, in fact.

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Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

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"Instead of change, please give me gun so i can shoot you." She is soft-spoken but short and full of rage lately, like her whole life.

Adverbs (2006)

The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.

Adverbs (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Handler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.