We'll Never Tell Quotes

“Sometimes, grief seizes me in a violent grip, and when it does, I almost double over in pain. I pause, breathe, try to release the image of how my life was meant to be. It doesn't matter what was destines; it only matters what actually happened. That's what I tell myself.”
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“But what I don’t want is someone turning it into a museum, some morbid theme park where visitors try to summon the ghost of Rosalinda. You know? That’s my biggest fear.”
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“You know my parents are all about, like, being special. Doing something big. They always act like Jacob’s this… distraction. Like I should be friends with more important people. They like Zoe. She’s somebody.”
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“I’d never do that.” The fact that he thinks I’d out him hurts. He knows I’m queer. It reminds me how little I actually know Eddie. He plays his cards very close to the vest. Jacob’s always been the one who helps him open up around us, who can access the funny parts of him. But now…”
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“Beneath it, I feel a twinge of resentment. Sometimes she makes everything such a production, even when it’s completely unnecessary, engineering situations so she’s always on center stage. What does that make me? Set dressing?”
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“But in reality, there’s no romance in a crime of passion. There’s just the ending of a life, small and quiet, and the broken people who get left behind.”
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“But no matter what happens with me and you, as long as my dad is alive and you want him in your life, he's going to be there. You won't lose him. And I'd never keep him from you out of spite.”
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“I felt like, how did I even get to this point where my entire life is tied up in this one person? If you and I decide to be together and then we break up, I don't just lose you. I lose your dad. I lose my place to go that isn't my empty house. I'll have to hide all our stuff in a box, shut my memories of you away.”
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“You say you want me to *be somebody*, but, like, we're all just people. Eveeryone is somebody. I--I didn't think you'd approve because you're always telling me I need to be around the kind of people who can help me get ahead.”
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“shame, such a waste, that Dallas died. It’s so tragically sad that she fell prey to the same greed and darkness that her relatives did before her. There was something bright and special about her. She could have done so much more. She could have been a real actress, for one. She was gifted, unusual, one of a kind.”
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“My dad was a piece of human garbage, high all the time, violent, just, like, a hurricane of bad energy. Then you have my mom. I don’t think she’s been sober a day in my life.” I slur my words as I reply.”
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“You tried to kill Jacob that night. All this cover-up stuff was your idea. Where are the tapes? Who wiped the computers? Who doctored the security camera footage?” She levels me with a glare. “Fuck you for accusing me of that, for even thinking that. Go to hell, Casey.” She turns and walks away.”
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“I’m overwhelmed with different emotions—confused by how normal she’s acting, bewildered by the knowledge that she dug up the tapes, that she’s been lying to me, that she might have been the one who stabbed Jacob,”
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“Casey,” I answer. “Her friend.” “Good that you brought a friend,” he tells Dallas. “It would be stupid of you to come to a strange man’s house alone.”
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“raised a hand to wave, but then I sucked in a breath. Zoe was lifting her arms and winding them around his neck. My steps faltered.”
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“One would hope such an enlightened man would be immune to the woes that plague us common folk. However, close friends of Adrian Wonders have often commented on his tempestuous nature, emphasizing the burden his gift has proven itself to be.”
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“This seems like something a group of kids would do together. I see you, with your family history. I see your friend Zoe, who’s going to MIT, such a smart girl, and I think, these are kids who could cover their tracks if they wanted to. I see your cell phones, all turned off that night.”
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“My grandma is holding my hand, which is infantilizing, but I allow it. She’s super freaked out to be back in a police station after all these years, and I can’t blame her.”
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“Everyone who inherits it dies within a few years.” “My family’s full of drug addiction, so yeah, that tends to happen.” I lift my hands, defensive. “Hey, I’m with you. I don’t believe in curses.”
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“My family’s problems are not your entertainment. You think this is so fun and edgy? I hate true crime people. You have no idea how much trauma ruins things for generations.…” She waves her hands. “You know what? Forget it. Maybe now that your friend got stabbed you won’t be so entertained by other people’s suffering.”
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“don’t have to justify any of this to you. It’s none of your business. Why don’t you tell me why you keep breaking into my houses?” I stuff my hands into my pockets,”
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“You’re a mess would be on a loop inside my skull for a long time, I could already tell. My torso felt carved open, like he’d taken a surgical instrument and dissected me, leaving my guts splayed out, bloody and vulnerable.”
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“Factoid: A large number of murderers get caught buying the supplies they needed for their killings. At least a dozen such cases spring to mind.”
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“people waiting for fresh carne asada or the millions of food trucks selling everything from sushi burritos to Korean barbecue. Los Angeles is all about layers, and middle-of-the-night Hollywood is one from the deep interior, all the for-show stripped away, displaying only what’s at its core, what’s usually hidden under all the tourism and partying and beauty and wealth. In the middle of the night, everyone is gone except the residents of tent cities, the people whose habits keep them up all night, the sex workers searching for stragglers from the bars, and the cops like vultures circling for carrion.”
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“This YouTube channel is turning into a curse. I was always worried we’d get charged with a misdemeanor for breaking and entering, but it never occurred to me that one of us could get seriously hurt. If JJ knew why Jacob was really in the hospital, he’d never forgive us.”
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“Wow.” I sat back. “Have you considered that I might be able to support you, that we could go through this next phase together? Or am I just some gay temptress who’s going to keep you from, what, marrying the perfect actress you meet on set?”
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“Yeah, look at me.” He laughed bitterly. “I’m a line cook, Jake. If I’d gone to culinary school, I could be a chef, I could work in fine dining or open my own restaurant—”
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“Either someone is still in this house, or someone was in this house. No matter what, the cops are about to respond to this alarm, and we are going down not only for this but for all the stuff on our YouTube channel. Our lives will be over.”
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“You should see the dresses in the master bedroom closet,” she says. “I can’t believe they haven’t been stolen. I’m talking yellow satin, seventies pink chiffon. Incredible.”
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“I’m not one for vibes and auras—that’s the opposite of evidence—but this house has seriously dark energy.”
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