Daniel Handler Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Family, Baby

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

• There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Parent, Secret

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, September 23, 2003.

• What do your parents know, about surviving?

  Daniel Handler

  Parent, Knows, Surviving

• We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

  Daniel Handler

  Parent, Wish, World

• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Writing, Mean

• I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto the roof of the garage and the sky while my parents sleep innocent and the lonely cars move sparse on the faraway streets, when the pillow won’t stay cool and the blankets bother my body no matter how I move or lie still. I just sit with my legs dangling and light matches and watch them flicker away.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Lying, Moving

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.29, Egmont UK

• I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Parent, Missing

• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Parent

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

• People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

• For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

  Daniel Handler

  Teenager, Blessing, Phones

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

• In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Kids

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