Jay Asher

“When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.”

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”

“I needed a break...from myself.”

“It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.”

“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.”

“It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.”

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

“What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”

“Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.”

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

“I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they're uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all.”

“Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why”

“Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.”

“History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.”

“And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.”

“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 you head.”

“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.”