Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up Quotes
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.
I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.
I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.
You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.
