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?
Daniel HandlerThe rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
Daniel HandlerFriends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.
Daniel HandlerIt is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
Daniel HandlerA library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
Daniel HandlerTags: humor ignorance library lemony-snicket
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
Daniel HandlerWhen do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?
Daniel HandlerIt 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.
Daniel HandlerThey looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
Daniel HandlerLove is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.
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