Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

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.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Everything...affects everything

I left. When I should have stayed.