“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

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American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Sni… 1970

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