110+ Jay Asher Quotes On Education, Friendship And Sad

Jay Asher is an American writer, best known for his 2007 young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why. The novel has been adapted into a Netflix television series of the same name. Asher has also written several other novels, including The Future of Us and What Light. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jay Asher on education, love, friendship.

Top 10 Jay Asher Quotes

1. The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.
2. 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.
3. You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.
4. You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.
5. I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
6. And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.
7. Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
8. Everything...affects everything
9. Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
10. I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

Jay Asher Short Quotes

• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
• They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.
• But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.
• In the end....everything matters.
• As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
• I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.
• Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
• Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.
• The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

Jay Asher Quotes About Love

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight. — Jay Asher

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. — Jay Asher

It was love because it was worth it. — Jay Asher

How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it. — Jay Asher

Jay Asher Quotes About Sad

A lot of you cared, just not enough. — Jay Asher

And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. — Jay Asher

That’s when I said it. That’s when I whispered to her, “I’m so sorry.” Because inside, I felt so happy and sad at the same time. Sad that it took me so long to get there. But happy that we got there together. — Jay Asher

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. — Jay Asher

Jay Asher Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Jay Asher

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. — Jay Asher

Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine. — Jay Asher

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free. — Jay Asher

Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own when I get home. But she likes it. She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her. — Jay Asher

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late. — Jay Asher

He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me. — Jay Asher

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable. — Jay Asher

And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes. — Jay Asher

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

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why — Jay Asher

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project. — Jay Asher

I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them. — Jay Asher

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there. — Jay Asher

I needed a break... from myself. — Jay Asher

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else? — Jay Asher

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me. — Jay Asher

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away. — Jay Asher

Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading. I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed. — Jay Asher

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. — Jay Asher

What the hell happened to Pluto?! — Jay Asher

Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. — Jay Asher

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

I can't. You can't rewrite the past. — Jay Asher

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier. — Jay Asher

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you. — Jay Asher

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it. — Jay Asher

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy. — Jay Asher

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible. — Jay Asher

You don't need to watch out for me, Clay." But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away. I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder? — Jay Asher

Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye. — Jay Asher

How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me. — Jay Asher

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were. — Jay Asher

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. — Jay Asher

I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along. — Jay Asher

The Golden Rule will always be good advice! — Jay Asher

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 Asher

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends? — Jay Asher

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that. — Jay Asher

But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today. — Jay Asher

If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist. — Jay Asher

All you really have... is now. — Jay Asher

‎Because if I hadn't been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. And Hannah might still be alive. — Jay Asher

The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move. — Jay Asher

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her. — Jay Asher

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most. — Jay Asher

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

I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her. — Jay Asher

You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror. — Jay Asher

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

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says. — Jay Asher

I left. When I should have stayed. — Jay Asher

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on. — Jay Asher

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now. — Jay Asher

My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you. — Jay Asher

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor. — Jay Asher

This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again. — Jay Asher

It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable. — Jay Asher

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much. — Jay Asher

After all, how often do we get a second chance? — Jay Asher

I repeat his words in my head. What's going on? What's going on? Oh, well, since you asked, I got a bunch of tapes in the mail today from a girl who killed herself. Apparently, I had something to do with it. I'm not sure what that is, so I was wondering if I could borrow your Walkman to find out. 'Not much,' I say. — Jay Asher

I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon. — Jay Asher

I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over. — Jay Asher

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest. — Jay Asher

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

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say. — Jay Asher

and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy — Jay Asher

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. — Jay Asher

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time. — Jay Asher

How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face? — Jay Asher

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up? — Jay Asher

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. — Jay Asher

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real. — Jay Asher

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

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet. — Jay Asher

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide. — Jay Asher

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah. — Jay Asher

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against. — Jay Asher

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy! — Jay Asher

I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back. — Jay Asher

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true. — Jay Asher

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings. — Jay Asher

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it. — Jay Asher

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will. — Jay Asher

Because our lies matched. It was a sign. — Jay Asher

When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass. — Jay Asher

But they were wrong. There was a reason. — Jay Asher

Life Lessons by Jay Asher

1. Jay Asher's work emphasizes the importance of being kind and understanding to others, as well as the power of redemption and second chances.
2. His stories show that everyone has a unique story to tell, and that it is important to listen to and understand the perspectives of others.
3. He also teaches us that it is never too late to make amends and that, even in the darkest of times, hope can be found.