There are some things I’m never going to tell you no matter how many times you ask

The expression “There are some things I’m never going to tell you no matter how many times you ask” is a memory that intrudes on Maren’s encounter with Jason in the library stacks. Its return interrupts her threat to eat him and complicates the scene: the question of what she is becomes entangled with what she has chosen not to reveal.

The Memory in the Stacks

Jason asks whether Maren is a succubus. She answers with a threat to eat him, specifying that she would begin with his throat. As she waits for his response, a memory works its way into her thoughts: “There are some things I’m never going to tell you no matter how many times you ask.” Maren then recognizes that, all this time, she had thought she wanted to know. The passage does not identify exactly what knowledge the remembered words concern, leaving the object of that desire unstated.

Withholding and Intimacy

The expression marks a limit on disclosure at the very moment Jason presses Maren to name what she is. Yet the scene does not resolve into simple rejection: Jason steps closer and runs his tongue along her jaw, and Maren presses her lips to his neck. The remembered refusal to tell thus sits beside an exchange of physical closeness. That contrast gives the expression its force here: Maren’s secrets remain withheld, even as the encounter moves from a verbal threat toward intimacy.