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

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.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.