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Tell Me Three Things QUOTES

Tell Me Three Things QUOTES

1 " Just so you know, I realize that what happened is not in any way okay, but I think we're going to have to pretend like it is.

Because it wasn't okay and never will be. We will power through it; I will continue to power through it-all the stagnant, soul-crushing grief-but it will never be okay that my mom is not here. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

2 " There’s nothing lonelier than a hand on glass. Maybe because it’s so rarely reciprocated. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

3 " Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

4 " I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

5 " I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

6 " Email is much like an ADD diagnosis. Guaranteed extra time on the test. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

7 " But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it’s a poetry. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

8 " SN: you know what I think about sometimes?

Me: What?

SN: you know that piece of hair that always falls into your eyes—the not-quite-a-bang piece? I want to be able to tuck it behind your ear. I want to be able to do that. I want to meet you when I feel comfortable enough with you to do that.

Me: You are so weird.

SN: you are not the first person to say that.

Me: Am I the first to say that I really like that about you? "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

9 " Just because you're strong doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for help sometimes. Remember that. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

10 " Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they're only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

11 " Other people can't make you feel stupid. Only you can. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

12 " One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn’t ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you’d have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

13 " Not knowing the right thing to do is not an excuse for not doing anything. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

14 " He's more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on his mind is somehow different from what goes on everyone else's. Even those close to us. And how you can't think about that for too long, because that thought- the truth of your own isolation- is too much to bear. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

15 " Not feeling like I belong anywhere has made me crave constant motion; standing still feels risky, like asking to be a target. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

16 " I think of his hands fixing me a plate, almost touching my banged-up face, and all I can think about is how much I want to kiss them: his eyes, his hands too.
All of him.
His damaged parts.
All of him. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

17 " His two front teeth are slightly crooked, veer just a tiny bit to the right, as if they've decided perfection is overrated. His smile is like unlocking a riddle. How does an imperfection make him seem more perfect? "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

18 " You know how it is. Mean girls get mean in seventh grade and they stay that way until your ten-year reunion, when they want to be best friends again. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

19 " My fear of saying something stupid often leaves me saying almost nothing at all. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things

20 " Come to think of it, I don't want to be my friend either. "

― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things