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“This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Sex

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love , Life , Time

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Heart

“Undeveloped, the whole thing, tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Chance , Box

“It 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 Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Truly
Context: If you follow the diamond in my mother's ring from Africa to Germany to California to Arizona to Wisconsin, in the heel of a grandmother, in the beak of a magpie, in the gravel of the path, in someone else's novel, in the center of the earth where the volcanoes are from, you would forget the miracle, the reason diamonds end up in people's fingers in the first place. it 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.

Love , People , Way , Bird

“Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Smile , Night

“Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl , Thinking

“… there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“But it’s December now, and the sky is bright, and it’s clear to me. I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love , Truth

“If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Time

“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love , Nature

“I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“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.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Judgmentally

Love , Waiting

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love , Life , Pain , People

“And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Life , Housing