"You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"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."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"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."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"In the end....everything matters."
— Jay Asher

"A lot of you cared, just not enough."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you--just a tad--off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. 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."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"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)

""In the end, everything matters.""
— Jay Asher

"You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life you’re messing with their entire life. Everything…affects everything."
— 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)

"You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything...affects everything. "
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
..Is to press play."
— Jay Asher

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

—Hannah Baker "
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"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."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

" 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. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

""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.""
— 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.

—Hannah Baker"
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)