Jay Asher Quotes

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.

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.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

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.

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

I left. When I should have stayed.

What the hell happened to Pluto?!

All you really have... is now.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.

Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.

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.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

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.

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

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.

Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

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.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.