You Do NOT Want to Know: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"I could say twelve words, and when I was done, the least you'd do is turn away and leave me alone forever."

He could tell that she was speaking the truth, and the fact that she had the power to do this, to send him away, dismayed him. "Then don't say them." }}

{{quote|'''Myn Donos''': "I want to make you smile with something [[Deadpan Snarker|other than a wisecrack]]. I want to know who you really are."

Her laugh, sudden and hard, startled him. "Oh, no, you don't." }}

{{quote|'''Wedge''': "Any of you understand that? Her mood swing?"

'''Tycho''': "I think I'd shoot myself before getting involved in this conversation."

'''Moist''': "The goddess Czol?"

'''Anghammarad''': "Do Not Ask." }}

* Subverted and inverted early on in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]], when Arthur takes the precaution of asking Ford, "if I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?" Ford cuts to the chase and tells him where they are. Arthur was probably happier when he didn't know.

* Used in a decidedly non-comedic fashion in ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', when [[Shell Shocked Senior]] Camaris refuses to tell the protagonists about his mysterious past that led to a [[Heroic BSOD]], on the grounds that it's too shameful. He does confess it twice, once to a priest and once to [[The Wise Prince|Prince Josua]], and both emerge from the experience wishing they hadn't been told. At the end, it's revealed that he's {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Josua's father]]}}, and lived his life afterwards in misery over his weakness and the subsequent [[Death by Childbirth]] of the woman in question.