Quote

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Daniel Handler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
Author
Musician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Lemony Snicket
Difficult
Cannot
Truth
Nothing
Faced
Admit
Control
Situation

More quotes by Daniel Handler

Image
It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.
Daniel Handler
Image
You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.
Daniel Handler
Image
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
Daniel Handler
Image
A bolt from the blue.
Daniel Handler
Image
...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.
Daniel Handler
Image
Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.
Daniel Handler
Image
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Handler
Image
Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something
Daniel Handler
Image
This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.
Daniel Handler
Image
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
Daniel Handler
Image
Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!
Daniel Handler
Image
I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.
Daniel Handler
Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
Daniel Handler
Image
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.
Daniel Handler
Image
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
Daniel Handler
Image
It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.
Daniel Handler
Image
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
Daniel Handler
Image
Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!
Daniel Handler
Image
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.
Daniel Handler
Image
There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
Daniel Handler