The Best 13 Reasons Why Quotes

Hey, it’s Hannah. Hannah Baker. Don’t adjust your… whatever device you’re hearing this on. It’s me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to this tape, you’re one of the reasons why.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep1: Tape 1, Side A

The truth isn’t always the most exciting version of things, or the best or the worst. It’s somewhere in between. But it deserves to be heard and remembered. The truth will out, like someone said once. It remains.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep1: Tape 1, Side A

You take what you can get in this life.Clay Jensen, S1.Ep2: Tape 1, Side B

You can’t know rumors. You can hear them, but you can’t know them.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep2: Tape 1, Side B

Losing a good friend is never easy, especially when you don’t understand why you lost them in the first place.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep2: Tape 1, Side B

Chaos theory isn’t exactly about chaos. It’s about how a tiny change in a big system can affect everything.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep3: Tape 2, Side A

Sometimes when there’s no justice, you gonna make it for yourself.Tony Padilla, S1.Ep4: Tape 2, Side B

When I listen to the tapes… I want to see her in school tomorrow. I want to eat Mike and Ikes out of the box with her at the Crestmont. I want to dance with her again, and kiss her… when I should have kissed her. But I can’t.Clay Jensen, (about Hannah), S1.Ep5: Tape 3, Side A

Maybe none of us can say who we truly are.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep6: Tape 3, Side B

Everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself.Clay Jensen, S1.Ep7: Tape 4, Side A

Everybody wants to talk. No one wants to do anything.Clay Jensen, S1.Ep8: Tape 4, Side B

You can’t change other people, but you can change yourself.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep9: Tape 5, Side A

Sometimes things just happen to you. They just happen. You can’t help it. But it’s what you do next that counts. Not what happens but what you decide to do about it.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep10: Tape 5, Side B

Clay, Helmet, your name does not belong on this list. But you need to be here if I’m going to tell my story. If I’m going to explain why I did what I did. Because you aren’t every other guy. You’re different. You’re good and kind and decent. And I didn’t deserve to be with someone like you. I never would. I would have ruined you. It wasn’t you. It was me, and everything that’s happened to me.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep11: Tape 6, Side A

You wanna know what’s worse than being a rapist? Hiding behind one.Alex Standall, S1.Ep12: Tape 6, Side B

It seemed like no matter what I did, I kept letting people down. I started thinking how everyone’s lives would be better without me.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep12: Tape 6, Side B

The way I see it, there are two different kinds of death. If you’re lucky, you live a long life and one day your body stops working and it’s over. But if you’re not lucky, you die a little bit, over and over, until you realize it’s too late.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep12: Tape 6, Side B

Life is unpredictable and control is just an illusion.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep12: Tape 6, Side B

I started with Justin. Then Jessica. Who each broke my heart. Alex, Tyler, Courtney, Marcus, who each helped to destroy my reputation. On through Zach and Ryan, who broke my spirit. Through tape number 12, Bryce Walker, who broke my soul.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep13: Tape 7, Side A

Some of you care. None of you cared enough.Hannah Baker, S1.Ep13: Tape 7, Side A

You can’t love someone back to life.Kevin Porter, S1.Ep13: Tape 7, Side A

It has to get better. The way we treat each other and look out for each other. It has to get better somehow.Clay Jensen, (to Kevin), S1.Ep13: Tape 7, Side A

People tell lies about you, and other people believe them. And it gets to the point where the lies might as well be the truth.Tyler Down, S2.Ep1: The First Polaroid

Just because you have the picture doesn’t mean you have the whole story.Tyler Down, S2.Ep1: The First Polaroid

We all have things we keep hidden. Sometimes, keeping secrets is how you survive.Courtney Crimsen, S2.Ep2: Two Girls Kissing

There will always come a time when we’re forced to face the thing we’re most afraid of.Courtney Crimsen, S2.Ep2: Two Girls Kissing

When the house is on fire, do you discuss the fire or get out of the goddamn house?Clay Jensen, S2.Ep3: The Drunk Slut

Sometimes it seems like no matter what you do, people still see you the way they want to.Jessica Davis, S2.Ep3: The Drunk Slut

We all want to be strong. We all want to be the kind of people who deserve good friends. But I guess, at the end of the day, none of us are as strong as we want to be.Jessica Davis, S2.Ep3: The Drunk Slut

Privilege is a trap all its own.Marcus Cole, S2.Ep4: The Second Polaroid

There’s always another side to every story.Hannah Baker, S2.Ep4: The Second Polaroid

Nothing that’s worth anything comes without pain.Ryan Shaver, S2.Ep5: The Chalk Machine

A work of art is only good if it arises from necessity, from need. And it can be political need or personal need or, ideally, both. Art should be confrontation. It should shock and scare you.Ryan Shaver, S2.Ep5: The Chalk Machine

You fool yourself into thinking that by keeping things hidden, it makes it easier for you to get by.Zach Dempsey, S2.Ep6: The Smile at the End of the Dock

A favor is only a favor if someone asks for it.Bryce Walker, S2.Ep7: The Third Polaroid

Infinity. It’s funny how we have a word for that concept, but there is no way we can understand it.Clay Jensen, S2.Ep7: The Third Polaroid

Maybe love is how you understand infinity. When your love has no limits, when it goes on forever. Maybe that feels like infinity.Hannah Baker, S2.Ep7: The Third Polaroid

Keeping it in, that is not brave. Feeling the pain, facing it, that takes courage.Olivia Baker, (to Jessica), S2.Ep8: The Little Girl

When kids feel powerless, when they feel they have no avenue for understanding, they act out.Kevin Porter, S2.Ep9: The Missing Page

When we act out of anger or fear, we can hurt people we don’t mean to hurt.Tony Padilla, S2.Ep10: Smile, Bitches

Friendship is complicated. You find yourself doing things you never thought you’d do.Justin Foley, S2.Ep12: The Box of Polaroids

Hannah Baker came into my life at the end of one summer like a star that fell to Earth. Like nothing I had seen, like no one I had ever met. She was funny, and smart, and moody, and maddening, and beautiful. And I loved her. I loved her so much. And I ask her every day why she did what she did. But I get no answers. She took those with her when she went. Leaving me, all of us, angry, empty, confused. And I know that hurt won’t ever go away. But there will come a day when I don’t feel it every minute. And the anger won’t be so hot, and the other feelings will fade, and I’ll be left with only love. A good friend once said to me, “I can love you and still let you go.” So, Hannah, I love you, and I let you go. I will miss you. And I hope that wherever you go next, you feel peace, you feel safe in a way that you never did here. Wherever you go next, I hope you know that I love you.Clay Jensen, S2.Ep13: Bye

How do we take what hurts most? Take the darkness and turn it into light? I think the answer is we love each other.Clay Jensen, S2.Ep13: Bye

Change, especially positive change, happens so slowly it can feel it’s not happening at all.Priya Singh, S3.Ep2: If You're Breathing, You're a Liar

Everything a mother does, she does for her child. If she loses her child, she loses everything.Amara Josephine Achola, S3.Ep4: Angry, Young and Man

When you judge someone by their past, it can make that past impossible to escape.Ani Achola, S3.Ep4: Angry, Young and Man

No matter what may come, or where we go, if it’s one person in the mirror or all of us, we remember how good we are.Tony Padilla, S3.Ep6: You Can Tell the Heart of a Man by How He Grieves

We’re all in costumes all the time, trying to become the thing we’re wearing.Ani Achola, S3.Ep7: There Are a Number of Problems with Clay Jensen

People always tell you who they are. You just have to listen.Clay Jensen, S3.Ep7: There Are a Number of Problems with Clay Jensen

A maze, you get lost. A labyrinth, you find yourself.Kevin Porter, S3.Ep8: In High School, Even on a Good Day, It's Hard to Tell Who's on Your Side

When people stare at you and talk or they don’t stare but you can tell that they want to, just remember that you know who you are, and they don’t.Tyler Down, S3.Ep9: Always Waiting for the Next Bad News

The louder we get, the harder it is for someone to even find their voice.Jessica Davis, S3.Ep11: There Are a Few Things I Haven't Told You

People need to be able to speak before they can shout.Jessica Davis, S3.Ep11: There Are a Few Things I Haven't Told You

Winning at the cost of who you are, winning at the cost of becoming someone that you hate, means nothing.Zach Dempsey, S3.Ep12: And Then the Hurricane Hit

Sometimes I feel like that’s all life is. It’s just all the mistakes you make and all the s*** you gotta do to set it right.Justin Foley, S3.Ep13: Let the Dead Bury the Dead

I’m a person in a thousand pieces. But I’m seeing a counselor. It’s a long, hard process, but little by little, you start picking up the pieces. And you realize that what you’re making is a mirror. And the more pieces you put together, the more you see yourself.Bryce Walker, S3.Ep13: Let the Dead Bury the Dead

It’s not supposed to be easy for people like us. We’re meant to go through s*** and make it out alive.Justin Foley, S3.Ep13: Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Everyone keeps trying to put you in one box. And you fit, or you don’t, or you pretend to. But any way you look at it, it’s a f***ing box. It’s a f***ing box, like the box they’ll bury you in.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep2: College Tour

Courage on the field doesn’t mean s*** unless you have the courage to stand up to each other when you’re being f***ing d*cks. Or when you’re bragging about that hot chick you were banging last night. Or calling us “lady” like you’re a gentleman, but really, you’re just trying to diminish us. Standing up to that kind of bulls***, that’s what it means to be a man.Jessica Davis, S4.Ep3: Valentine's Day

When you see people for who they really are, the fantasy goes away, and then so does the love.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep3: Valentine's Day

Anxiety, panic, it’s not about what you know is coming. It’s about what you don’t.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep4: Senior Camping Trip

Everyone’s past is the reason for what they do today.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep6: Thursday

It is never wrong to care about your friends. It’s never wrong to be a human being and love someone as well as you can.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep7: College Interview

There comes a time when enough is enough, and you have to stand up and face up and fight back.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep8: Acceptance/Rejection

Ancient history is somehow present tense. Everything is ending, but nothing is over. And none of us knows how to make sense of the jumble of things that happened.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep10: Graduation

I can’t promise the story has a happy ending. What happens to us, it may only have the sense that we make of it. But I do know that it’s in telling the story that we learn who we are. And maybe see who we might become.Robert Ellman, (to Clay), S4.Ep10: Graduation

It’s easy to hate. It’s easy to fear. It’s goddamn hard to love. But it’s not optional. It’s essential. It’s life or death. I challenge you. Love each other. Do it. Do it better. Now and every day.Jessica Davis, S4.Ep10: Graduation

Whatever happens, keep moving. Get through it. Choose to live. ‘Cause even on the worst day, there are people who love you. There’s new music waiting for you to hear, something you haven’t seen before that will blow your mind in the best way. Even on the worst day, life is a pretty spectacular thing.Clay Jensen, S4.Ep10: Graduation

You can forgive people. Even the people who hurt you worst. When you forgive someone, it’s more for you than them.Justin Foley, S4.Ep10: Graduation