Why We Broke Up

by Daniel Handler

“I really should lend you my film books,” she said, and put her bowl in the sink.

No one would say this. It's like going into bar and ordering "a beer" these days (as I've seen in film/tv). Fake dialogue.

This is the bottle of Pensieri. I never told you about Leopardi’s, and I never told you about the night I had getting Pensieri, just this one bottle, you never asked, while you had—ha!—your family thing. I never told you. There’s a lot, Ed, I never told you. Let me tell you some of it.

Will we learn what the "family thing" was?

I let my relief breathe all around me, like I’d jumped into a perfect pool and was waiting that lovely still moment before starting to swim. “Yep. That’s why I didn’t like Goofballs III: Look Out Below!”

These movies are all made up, right?