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• As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

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  Responsibility, Stories, Compelling

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

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  Growing, Hours, Mist

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• Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

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  Desire, Teens

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• And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

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  Eye, Two, Stories

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.214, Penguin

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• I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

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  Games, Missing, Video

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• I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

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  Writing, Brainstorming

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• Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

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  Blood, Lust, Black

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• 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. If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

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  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• Maybe 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.

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  World, Might, Notes

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• Everything...affects everything

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  Suicide

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.294, Penguin

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

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  Sorry, Thinking, I'm Sorry

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.280, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Noise, Awareness, Get Away

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• 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.

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  People, Giving, Goes On

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

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• What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

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  Mean, Thrive

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• 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.

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  Party, Tangled, Would Be

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.239, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Heart, Air, Car

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.219, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Writing, Scary, Littles

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Lasts, Remember, Trust Me

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• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

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  Sweet, Journey, Long

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.290, Penguin

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• Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

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  Lying, Matched

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.20, Penguin

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• 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?

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  Voice, Trying, Clay

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• 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.

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  Book, Trying, May

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Talking

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Hurt, What If, Said

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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