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“I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it. ”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I can't. You can't rewrite the past.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“After all, how often do we get a second chance?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I left. When I should have stayed.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.”

That's the note. Word for word. And I know it's word for word because I wrote it dozens of times before delivering it. I'd write it, throw it away, write it, crumple it up, throw it away.

But why was I writing it to begin with? I asked myself that question every time I printed the words onto a new sheet of paper. Why was I writing this note? It was a lie. I hadn't been thinking about it. Not really. Not in detail. The thought would come into my head and I'd push it away.

But I pushed it away a lot.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“There are some sick and twisted people out there, Alex – and maybe I’m one of them – but the point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why