There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).

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

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

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

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.