Please Don't Tell Quotes

“The thing about guilt is that it doesn't make you want to fix yourself. It makes you shredded and hopeless and small. It makes you avoid the problem because you hate yourself so much you think you'll make it worse, and then you hate yourself more because you're not doing anything to help the people you hurt.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“The hardest thing is kindness when you know you don't deserve it. I want to deserve it. I want it so bad.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“It’s one thing to say you hate your dad. Everyone’s dad is an asshole sometimes. But it’s different to realize you’re never going to wake up one morning and have a dad who isn’t an asshole...”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“Sometimes you don't understand how broken you are until you put all the pieces together, cutting your fingers on them, realizing that enough shards have disappeared so that you'll never fit together like you used to.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“Silence is the worst thing someone can give you. Your mind fills it with every possible bad thing.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“It's dangerous, the way he makes me smile when I have nothing to smile about.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“I should probably go. I have a thousand years of homework. I’m still failing American History because I hate America and I hate history.” Make another joke, show him I’m fine. “Also tomorrow’s trash pickup day so I gotta go put myself out on the curb.” “Please don’t say things like that.” Wrong joke. “Just kidding.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell: A Novel

“If getting out of bed in the morning is as hard for you as fighting a monster, then you're a monster-fighting badass. If going to school makes you want to cry and you go anyway, you're a hero and your story is worth something.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“She doesn't weigh her words like I weigh mine. But all her words are light, no matter what they are. They soar out of her. Mine are always so heavy.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“I will literally scale oak trees to avoid uncomfortable and undesired familial social interaction.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“Parents have no idea how little they know about the people they gave life to.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“People are always turning silence into a knife to stab themselves with.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“I can be your stand-in friend," I mumble, "Convenience friend. Until you meet someone better."
"I hate that thing you just said," he says softly.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“I like who I am in the context of you.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell