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.
Jay AsherMaybe 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.
Jay AsherHannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).
Jay AsherIt's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
Jay AsherPersonally, 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.
Jay Asher