Jay Asher Quotes

You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything… affects everything.

You can hear rumors, but you can’t know them.

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

That’s why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about.

I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they’d heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn’t agree with.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what’s real.

Betrayal. It’s one of the worst feelings.

You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have…is now.

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

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

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.