QUOTATIONS: THIRTEEN REASONS WHY BY JAY ASHER
YESTERDAY: ONE HOUR AFTER SCHOOL
CASSETTE 1: SIDE A
"Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't stand up." - Hannah page 8
"Do not take me for granted...again." - Hannah page 10
"But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean. I don't." - Hannah page 12
"Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters in the end, everything matters." - Hannah page 13
"Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings." - Hannah page 13
"And this time, I was going to be in control of how people saw me. After all, how often do we get a second chance?" - Hannah page 19
"And damn it, you were going to kiss the hell out of me whether you liked it or not." 0 Hannah page 27
"But I do know, which is the least popular. The truth. Now, the truth is the one you won't forget." - Hannah page 29
CASSETTE 1: SIDE B
"Did it hurt? No. But that doesn't matter, does it? Because the question is, did we have the right to do it? And the answer is, I hope, is obvious." - Hannah page 48
"When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when the other people act on it." - Hannah page 53
CASSETTE 2: SIDE A
"You can't rewrite the past." - Clay page 60
"You can hear rumors but you can't know them." - Hannah page 66
CASSETTE 2: SIDE B
"Sometimes there's no one around to tell you to be quiet...to be very, very quiet. Sometime you need to be quiet when you're all alone. Like me, right now." - Hannah page 74
"Revenge would have been fun. Revenge in a twisted way, would have given me some sense of satisfaction." - Hannah page 83
"I wanted someone to be afraid of me. I wanted someone to validate my fears." - Hannah page 84
"I need that right now. I need to see her in a different way." - Clay page 91
CASSETTE 3: SIDE A
"It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true." - Hannah page 110
"Their reputations were more important than their faces." - Hannah page 112
"I did not want to act like everything was okay, because it wasn't." - Hannah page 118
"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." - Hannah page 118
CASSETTE 3: SIDE B
"You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much, too tiring - and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy...or whatever to happen." - Hannah page 124
"I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real." - Clay page 134
"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. And if I wanted people to treat me that way, then I had to do the same for them, right?" - Hannah page 135
"Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?" - Hannah page 145
"Will my life ever go where I want it to?" - Hannah page 145
CASSETTE 4: SIDE A
"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." - Hannah Baker page 156
"When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?" - Hannah page 161
"Who knew I was so predictable?" - Hannah page 161
CASSETTE 4: SIDE B
"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." - Hannah page 174
"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?" - Hannah page 175
"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." - Hannah page 177
"If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore, but you can't get away from yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head." - Hannah page 178
"I needed a break...from myself." - Hannah page 181
"Now suddenly, even my own thoughts were being offered up for ridicule." - Hannah Baker page 192
CASSETTE 5: SIDE A
"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." - Hannah page 199
"When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life." - Hannah page 201
"Everything...affects everything." - Hannah page 202
"You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have...is now. " - Hannah page 206
"We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you." - Clay page 207
"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?" - Hannah page 210
"The thing is I never really missed her till now." - Clay page 219
CASSETTE 5: SIDE B
"Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier." - Hannah page 223
"It feels good knowing someone understands what I'm listening to, what I'm going through, somehow, it makes it not as scary to keep listening." - Clay page 239
"Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you." - Clay page 249
CASSETTE 6: SIDE A
CASSETTE 6: SIDE B
"But who am I to hold a grudge?" - Hannah page 261
CASSETTE 7: SIDE A
"I'm asking for help because I cannot do this alone. I've tried that." - Hannah page 269
CASSETTE 7: SIDE B
THE NEXT DAY: AFTER MAILING THE TAPES
