Please Tell Me Quotes

“Men shouldn’t be allowed to go shopping in the supermarket. They should be shot on sight if they walked in. Robin hated everyone.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Men shouldn’t be allowed to go shopping in the supermarket. They should be shot on sight if they walked in.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“This was another thing the pandemic had killed”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Sometimes”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“It wasn’t one of those useful time machines, where you could go back to the eighties, attend a live Queen concert,”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“The Wonder Woman figurine was submerged in the bathtub, covered in the orange slime, only her feet protruding.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“I may . . . know someone who had witnessed . . . that is . . . someone I know hinted at a connection. She . . . that person might have seen something relating to both murders. But it’s not likely, right?”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“She dropped the package of toilet paper and had to bend down to pick it up, and then a man asked if he could help and she half shrieked at him that she was fine.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Robin swallowed. Poor kid. Everyone was so excited the girl was alive that it was easy to forget the tragedy underlining it. That Kathy had been abducted and had spent more than a year captive, away from her parents and her home.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Well, he’s going to come back.” Mom took Robin’s hand and squeezed it. “Because they think they found Kathy Stone. And she’s alive.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Yes,” she finally blurted. “I’m Officer Perez, from the Jasper Police Department. Mrs. Stone, we found your daughter.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“She would never leave,” Melody said hollowly. “She’s still waiting for Kathy to come back.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Her cart had three working wheels and one that was a free spirit who wanted to escape and tour the world. The”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Then she deleted that one and wrote a third one in which she quoted Nelson Mandela: There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“The bond between a mother and her child was the strongest substance known to man. Sometimes, it could be too strong.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Kids shouldn’t serve as glue to keep their parents together.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Sometimes men did terrible things to girls who walked alone at night.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“stopped talking, but I just shrugged, and she said I should look at her when she’s talking to me, but I din’t, so she said she would call my mom later. An’ afterwards I cried, because I was worried Mom would punish me, and some girls I din’t know looked at me ’cause I was being a baby, and I went home really mad, and I spent all day in my bed, and it was the worst day I ever had.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“She knew the anger and bitterness she was feeling were mostly due to her weariness, but knowing the cause didn’t make her thoughts any less frustrating.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“The bond between a mother and her child was the strongest substance known to man.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“What was the word to describe the feeling of existing in a reality that had all colors sucked out of it?”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“hugging her doll to her chest. The doll was scared, because of the shadows, which was why Kathy clutched her so tightly. Sometimes, when you’re scared, the only thing that helps is a hug.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“It was strange, how similar loneliness was to fear. The same pit in her stomach. The same breathlessness. The same need for someone to hold her. To talk to her.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Okay, what is this?” she finally blurted. “What?” Nathaniel glanced at her. “The music is all over the place. What are we even listening to?” “Oh, I’m sharing my playlist with my niece on Spotify. She’s ten. So it can be a mixed bag.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Robin had asked him a few months ago if her mother ever got on his nerves. He knew his daughters had an uneasy relationship with their mother. And he’d told Robin that whenever Diana called him, as she did several times every day, his heart still gave a small leap. Because that’s how it was when you truly loved someone.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Logically, she knew Tara was being nice. But an insidious thought whispered in her ear that Tara let her go first only because she and Ellie were conspiring to gossip about her once she left. A good rule of thumb was that if her inner monologue came up with the word conspire, it probably meant she was being paranoid.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Kathy was always alert, always listening and watching, prepared for danger. This hypervigilance was a clear sign of acute trauma. It almost certainly taxed Kathy, sapping her strength, leaving her constantly drained.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“and now the fear was overwhelming, and her voice was laced with tears, and when she found her daughter she would scream at her because it was better to be angry than afraid,”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Life gave her this child that suddenly was more important than anything else in the world, and then cruelly gave the child a mind of her own. So she could wander away, and play on the road, and climb tall trees, and pick up sharp, rusty pieces of junk, and eat mud. And the only way to make sure those things didn’t happen was to watch her daughter every second of every day. Which, of course, was impossible.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“Sometimes, when you’re scared, the only thing that helps is a hug.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me