Tell Me What You Did Quotes

“See, that’s the thing about trauma. You never get to quit it. You never get to walk away from it and rediscover the innocence and joy you felt just before The Thing happened.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“We never really know how others view us, but the one certain thing is that it's rarely how we expect.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I’ve been lonely for a long time. The key is to reframe loneliness as solitude. Solitude is introspective and comforting, if you set your mind right.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Happiness is a choice,” Alice says. “You decide what makes you happy and pursue it, rather than waiting for it to announce itself.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Happiness is a choice. You decide what makes you happy and pursue it, rather than waiting for it to announce itself.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Because, fuck it, I need to live my life. Whether that life lasts fifty more years or fifteen minutes, I can’t spend it in perpetual fear.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“It’s just always there, an unwashable stain that you eventually grow to live with because you have no other choice. I’ll never have a day where I wake up and the events of my past simply never occurred. I’ll never wake and be thankful all the horrors were just a bad dream. The things that happened will always have happened, and that’s just that.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Tell me what you did.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Happiness is a choice,” Alice says. “You decide what makes you happy and pursue it”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Solitude is introspective and comforting”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I don’t know what it is,” he says. “I suppose only you would know that. But there’s this space between us”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“They’ve figured out the earth weighs six septillion kilograms,” Dad says. “And by the looks of it”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I’m glad he’s physically better. The emotional part…I think we both know you never heal from that. You just think about things differently for the rest of your life.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The emotional part…I think we both know you never heal from that. You just think about things differently for the rest of your life.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“You worry you’re not good enough, that you don’t deserve to have something, and because you don’t believe in yourself, you end up losing the very thing you’re convinced you never deserved to have. You know?”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“But the deep grooves of the past don’t have to chart the course of the future.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“always managing to find peace in the fields of death.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I suppose that sums up childhood better than anything else: a time when things feel important.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“One person’s existential crisis is another person’s headline, a moment to consider before swiping to the next one, not even bothering to read the body of the story.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I finally sought proper therapy, and it’s helped. I had the same regard for happiness as you, and now I’m able to discover joy in the smallest of things. In fact, the small things tend to be the most beautiful.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“We all chase the unknown, throw ourselves headfirst into situations that may end up doing us harm, all because we are subjugated to our basest of impulses.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The bags under your eyes are so big, they wouldn’t fit in the overhead compartment.”
Dad joke.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“If that character doesn’t IMMEDIATELY go to the police, she will be labeled TSTL by the book club community. TSTL. Too stupid to live.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“We never really know how others view us, but the one certain thing is that it’s rarely how we expect.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Your efforts may not be enough, but as long as you try, you will never be defeated, at least not spiritually. And really, that’s all that matters.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“But I say nothing because sometimes silence is the only thing that feels good.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“PW: I decided I’d get a dog. And name her Bailey.
IH: Why that name?
PW: After my mother’s love of espresso martinis.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The Malbec was a blend. By blend, I mean it also had rat poison in it.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“It’s what my mom would have called a ripper—a book so thrilling, you’re nearly ripping the pages off as you turn them.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The things that happened will always have happened, and that’s just that. And when I think this way, it’s easy to start spiraling into self-pity.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did