Top 100 Jay Asher Quotes
#1. It seemed that I was the only one who cared about me.
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#2. Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.
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#3. I stood there and watched you disappear. Forever
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#4. One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.
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#5. It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
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#6. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.
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#7. I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right them and drag myself to the ivy.
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#8. Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
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#9. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is ... now.
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#10. If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.
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#11. Emma:"He broke your heart! How can you call it love when he
hurt you so badly?"
Kellan:"It was love
because it was worth it.
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#12. Now, the truth is the one you won't forget.
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#13. Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know
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#14. Because if I hadn't been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. And Hannah might still be alive.
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#15. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
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#16. Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?
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#17. I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.
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#18. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.
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#19. But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.
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#20. Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots even a Boy Scout would walk away from
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#21. That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down.
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#22. If not for that party, I never would have met the real you. But for some reason, and I am extremely grateful, you gave me that chance. However brief it was, you gave me a chance. And I liked the Hannah I met that night. Maybe I could've even loved her. But
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#23. Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.
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#24. The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.
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#25. I wonder if she means Graham. His locker is near mine, so I get to see him pull Emma into a groping session every morning.
It always fills me with so much joy.
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#26. Definitely beats my first kiss. Seventh grade, Andrea Williams, behind the gym after school. She came over to my table at lunch, whispered the proposition in my ear, and I had a hard-on for the rest of the day.
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#27. Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.
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#28. That's when I said it. That's when I whispered to her, "I'm so sorry." Because inside, I felt so happy and sad at the same time. Sad that it took me so long to get there. But happy that we got there together.
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#29. I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.
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#30. Expose yourself," they said. "Let us see your deepest and your darkest."
My deepest and my darkest? What are you, my gynecologist?
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#31. 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.
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#32. Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.
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#33. I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.
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#34. This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted ... again.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave ... her ... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.
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#37. But sometimes there's nothing left to do but move on.
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#38. No one know for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue.
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#39. It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.
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#40. One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong.
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#41. Things get better, or worse, depending on your point of view.
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#42. See, I'm not a very good musician.
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#43. I'm a...paperback, write-in-the-margins kind of girl.
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#44. People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.
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#45. You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.
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#46. 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.
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#47. But they were wrong. There was a reason.
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#48. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
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#49. I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.
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#50. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much - too tiring - and you consider letting go.
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#51. Trust me, not every girl would give up his sweatshirt just because a girl asks.
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#52. Nothing. It's ridiculous," he says. "I don't belong on those tapes. Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself." I
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#53. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.
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#54. He's doing sit-ups in his tighy-whities! His chest looks toned, but ... tighty-whities?
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#55. Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!
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#56. 30 minutes is a long time to wait for a Valentine's date.
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#57. I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!
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#58. When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?
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#59. Because you never wore makeup, Hannah. You didn't need it.
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#60. Do you know love and hate share same nervous circuits in the brain? - Kellan
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#61. What the hell happened to Pluto?!
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#62. He's always looking out windows,
contemplating something.
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#64. I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someone - someone I was really talking to for the first time - everything I was thinking? I couldn't. It was too soon.
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#65. How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?
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#66. Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye.
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#67. How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?"
"It was love because it was worth it.
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#68. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything
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#69. But whatever the reason, it felt surreal
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#70. Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide.
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#71. You've known this for a while, Ryan. I'm sure of it. At the first mention of poetry, you knew this one was about you. You had to. Though I'm sure you must have thought, This can't be why I'm on the tapes. It wasn't a big deal.
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#72. I left. When I should have stayed.
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#73. The kisses felt like first kisses. Kisses that said I could start over if I wanted to. With him.
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#74. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.
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#75. That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.
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#76. You don't need to watch out for me, Clay."
But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away.
I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder?
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#77. I can't. You can't rewrite the past.
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#78. If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings,
I'd be soaring in flight.
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#79. Looking back, i stopped writting in my notebook when i stopped wanting to know myself anymore
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#80. I don't know how to fully enjoy any of these moments without wondering if it's the last.
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#81. The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it's what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can't predict.
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#82. A lot of you cared, just not enough.
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#83. If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.
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#84. There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.
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#85. A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.
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#87. And then we turn 18 and even though we never had an original thought we have to make the most important decission of our lives.
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#88. 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?
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#89. Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true - that aren't really how we feel - but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.
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#90. Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.
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#91. The wonderful thing about a yearbook photo is that everyone shares the moment with you . . . forever.
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#92. And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.
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#93. With everything going on in my life-going on in my head-I wanted to talk with you. Really talk. Just once. A chance we never seemed to get at school. Or at work. A chance to ask, Who are you?
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#94. Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.
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#95. With her fingers running back up my arms, and all this sperm talk, things are getting a little too intense down below. I lean slightly forward, conveniently placing my forearms across my lap.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?
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#99. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what I needed to find out.
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#100. We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.
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