Daniel Handler Quotes

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation! They’re on the run! They’re running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they’re on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.