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101 " You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki. "
― Jay Asher , The Future of Us
102 " There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this”—I gestured encompassingly—“will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” – Hazel Grace Lancaster "
― Jay Asher
103 " 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
104 " And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it. "
105 " I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real. "
106 " Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. "
107 " You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. "
108 " 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. "
109 " I left. When I should have stayed. "
110 " When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass. "
111 " Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters. "
112 " A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor. "
113 " If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me.And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist. "
114 " It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. "
115 " How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face? "
116 " 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. "
117 " 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. "
118 " 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. "
119 " My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax.Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air.I open my eyes to bright moonlight.And Hannah, with warmth.Thank you. "
120 " 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. "