Top 200 Jay Asher Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Hey, it’s Hannah. Hannah Baker.”

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52. “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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53. “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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54. “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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55. “My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.”

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56. “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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57. “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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58. “How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”

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59. “I needed a break... from myself.”

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60. “We didn’t get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.”

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61. “Two steps behind her, I say her name. “Skye.”

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

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64. “And as I stood there in the hallway – alone – trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn’t worth an explanation – not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “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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67. “I can love you and still let you go.”

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68. “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.”

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

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70. “You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “A volte hai bisogno di stare in silenzio, anche se sei da solo.”

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73. “And for the first time in a long time, I felt hope.”

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74. “Hannah wasn’t my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered.”

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75. “It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”

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76. “That’s what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you’re not sure what the poet’s talking about. You may have an idea, but you can’t be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.”

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77. “What you don’t understand, you can make mean anything.”

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78. “He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.”

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79. “I wish I would die. I’ve thought those words many times. But it’s a hard thing to say out loud. It’s even scarier to feel you might mean it.”

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80. “The Golden Rule will always be good advice!”

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81. “It was love because it was worth it.”

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82. “Did you know dimples are actually a deformity?” he continues. “It means he has a muscle in his face that grew too short. It’s kind if gross if you think about it.”

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83. “Teens in the ’90s had the same basic desires as they do now.”

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84. “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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85. “Let someone take away any sense of privacy or security you might still possess. Then have someone use that insecurity to satisfy their own twisted curiosity.”

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86. “Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.”

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87. “I could picture life – school and everything else – continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.”

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88. “If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land.”

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89. “You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were.”

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90. “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.”

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91. “I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.”

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92. “Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?”

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93. “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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94. “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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95. “I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.”

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96. “Then come to realize that you’re making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you’ve become. Sure, it may feel like you can’t get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.”

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

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98. “Because our lies matched. It was a sign.”

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99. “People think what they want. That’s what I’ve had to accept,” he says. “I can fight it, but that’s exhausting. I can feel hurt about it, but that’s torture. Or I can decide it’s their loss.”

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100. “There are so many things prickling in the back of my mind, threatening to take me out of this moment. But instead of worrying about anything, I close my eyes, lean forward, and allow myself to believe in us.”

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