Carter Wilson > 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

“The concept of tomorrow is an illusion, a sweeping gesture of time. Marketing.”
― Carter Wilson, Mister Tender's Girl

“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

“Because that’s all we have in life, isn’t it? Our memories. It’s what makes the human experience. Best to get them onto paper before it’s too late.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“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

“It’s jarring to see Hindley in the flesh. The real-life Hindley is even more emaciated and diseased looking than the digital version. This person is a fucking scarecrow.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“I force myself to see things from his perspective, a hard thing to do for someone without kids of my own. But I understand. He loves me and wants to know exactly how fucked up I am.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“Not that I can explain it, but one small thing out of place is something I could chalk up to the universe hiccupping. That doesn’t make sense, but we do anything to rationalize ourselves though panic, I suppose.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“He was inside my house when he spoke to me, and though I called the police, they arrived too late to find him. I’m going to upload a few screenshots I took during the conversation, in case it helps in your efforts to figure out who this motherfucker is.”
― 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

“Solitude is introspective and comforting”
― 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

“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

“If I’d worked harder at our marriage, if I’d remained faithful, maybe she wouldn’t have looked for someone else. But I broke our vows, then told her about it, and she fell into the arms of a man who murdered her.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“He’s Buffalo Bill demanding for me to PUT THE LOTION IN THE FUCKING BASKET.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The escalation of events is troubling,” he says. A gorgeous understatement.”
― 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

“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

“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.”
― Carter Wilson

“Good. Here we go.” He tilts his head a few degrees to the side, his expression smug. He’s about to do what I do every episode, say the five words I always say on a podcast I now regret ever starting. “Tell me what you did.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

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

“Sounds like that’s why you started your show in the first place. Because you’re as guilty as all of them.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“And so here I am, left with the one true currency all of us possess.” Eaton lightly taps his index finger against his temple. “When we get to the point of death, whether we know it’s coming or not, all we’ve ever accumulated in life that matters are memories. Things we’ve done. People we’ve loved. Lands we’ve explored. Memories are the truest measure of wealth, and yet they can’t be passed down, not really. Stories can be told, but our memories, those things as unique as our fingerprints, all crumble along with our bones.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“But nothing is permanent, and nature is beautiful. Everything eventually dies, and most lives end with frustration over not being able to revisit the flights of our youth.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

“The numbers. The fucking numbers. They’re mine.”
― Carter Wilson, The New Neighbor