“Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.”

—  Daniel Handler , book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Collectively

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

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