Top 200 Jay Asher Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “But it’s more than a scratch it’s a slap in the face and a knife in the back, it’s a punch in the stomach because you’d rather believe some made up rumor than what you knew to be true. So tell me Jessica, did you drag yourself to my funeral? And what about you-the rest of you- did you drag yourself to my funeral, and if you did, did you see the scars you left? No, probably not because most of them can’t been seen with the naked eye.”

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203. “Every swallow tastes sour, and the closer I get to school, the closer I come to collapsing.”

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204. “Courtney does come off as genuinely sweet. Hearing her story here, on these tapes, must have killed her. A shiver crawls up my back. “Killed her”. A phrase I will now drop from my vocabulary. -pg 95.”

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205. “Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here. Live and in stereo. No return engagements. No encore. And this time, absolutely no requests. I hope you’re ready, because I’m about to tell you about 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. -pg 7.”

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206. “Who’s willing to test her bluff?”

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207. “But I couldn’t raise my eyes to face her. I didn’t want to see a look of disappointment or frustration in her eyes. I didn’t want to see those kinds of emotions directed at me.”

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208. “And the next day? Nothing in my bag. The note was gone. 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.”

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209. “But I’m starting to wonder if it actually has nothing to do with the future. Maybe it has everything to do with what happens now.”

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210. “Quindi, vi prego, non lasciate che sia un libro a far si che qualcuno si senta capito per la prima volta.”

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211. “It took all the guts in the world to keep that conversation going. Guts and two plastic cups of beer.”

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212. “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.”

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213. “Did you know love and hate share the same nervous circuits in the brain?”

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214. “I felt my head continue to nod as if it was attached to heavy springs...”

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215. “People had difficult time saying nice things to each other, so she devised a way for us to anonymously say what we felt.”

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216. “No es pot reescriure el passat.”

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217. “A few days before she took the pills, Hannah was herself again. She said hello to everyone in the halls. She looked us in the eyes. It seemed so drastic because it had been months since she had acted like that. Like the real Hannah. -pg 171.”

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218. “You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”

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219. “I should have given Jenny one final day of peace. Though.”

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220. “I’m a... paperback, write-in-the-margins kind of girl.”

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221. “And you, lucky number thirteen, you can take the tapes straight to hell. Depending on your religion, maybe I’ll see you there. -pg 9.”

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222. “And that’s when I thought of you, Justin. For the first time in a long time, I thought of our first kiss. My real first kiss. I remembered the anticipation leading up to it. I remembered your lips pressed against mine. And then I remembered how you ruined it. -pg 215.”

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223. “And that’s why, right at this moment, I feel so much hate. Towards myself. I deserve to be on this list. 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. -pg 181.”

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224. “But deep down, the truth was the only person saying that was me.”

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225. “And then, from behind me, someone called my name. I’m not going to tell you who because it doesn’t matter. Like the person who grabbed my ass at Blue Spot Liquor, what he was about to say was just an aftereffect of someone else’s actions- someones else’s callousness. -pg 113.”

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226. “No puedes huir de ti misma. No puedes decidir no mirarte mas. No puedes decidir que apagaras el ruido en tu cabeza.”

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227. “First, you started a chain of events that ruined my life. Now, you were working on hers. -pg 228.”

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228. “You don’t know what went on in the rest of my life. At home. Even at school. 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 whole entire life. -pg 201.”

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229. “Through the steam, the whole world seemed like a dream.”

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230. “Right, but he also thinks every episode of Friends is life-changing.” Josh.”

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231. “The haircut. Averting your eyes in the halls. You were careful, but still, there were signs. Little signs. But they were there.”

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232. “Justin, baby. I’m not blaming you entirely. We’re in this one together. We both could have stopped it. Either one of us. We could have saved her. And I’m admitting this to you. To all of you. That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down. -pg 229.”

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233. “Els rumors no es poden desmentir.”

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234. “And the next day? Nothing in my bag. The note was gone. -pg 165.”

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235. “You can’t rewrite the past. -pg 60.”

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236. “They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.”

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237. “Who would send me a shoe box full of audiotapes? No one listens to tapes anymore. Do I even have a way to play them? -pg 6.”

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238. “Je ne parle pas de solitude banale, mais de solitude dans une foule pleine de gens.”

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239. “The glass door to Rosie’s closes behind me, and I hear three locks immediately slide into place. So now where? Home?”

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240. “If not for that party, I never would have met the real you.”

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241. “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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242. “Because you never wore makeup, Hannah. You didn’t need it.”

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243. “So we walked into the living room, where one side of the couch was occupied. By Jessica Davis and Justin Foley. But there was plenty of room on the other end, so we sat down. And what was the first thing we did? We sat down our cups and started talking. Just... like... that. -pg 208.”

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244. “And what about me? What did I do? How will Hannah say that I scarred her? Because I have no idea.”

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245. “My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.”

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