Daniel Handler Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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

  Cute, Gay, Long

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

• Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

  Daniel Handler

  Waiting, Hardship

• If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Positivity, Waiting

  "The Ersatz Elevator". Book by Daniel Handler, February 20, 2001.

• One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Weed, Dark

• Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspirational, Waiting, Violet

• Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Waiting, Different

• Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Halloween, Home

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