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“There was a little gap, a thrilling one, between the narrator and the author, between what was true and what couldn't be, a crucial space for a young reader, surrounded everywhere by the usual restrictions, to sit free and think what I liked.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

“Power is a part of every romance. It is essential to the transaction. Can you court someone without paying for it? Can you be courted without surrendering something?”
― Hannah Deitch, Killer Potential

“I don't believe books are the cure to everything, necessarily, but it's like--when you're feeling unwell, and you receive a diagnosis, and you're so relieved because now you realize that it wasn't all in your head, that there's a name for what you're experiencing. On a bad day, books offer a language for your pain, and on a good day, books remind you just how precious your life is.”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here

“The pleasure of reading is the pleasure of loneliness. Loneliness is at the heart of literature -- every book, every single book you can read.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?