Jay Asher Quotes
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My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
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This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
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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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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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I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
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How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.
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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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When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?
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Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.” “Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It’s crazy!” “Exactly,” I say. “I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.
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Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.
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Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!
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Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.
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Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?
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A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but frustrating and upsetting. I hear from readers that my work encouraged them to ask for help or reach out to someone about the situation they're in. When you hear stories like that on a daily basis and then hear adults call for your work to be banned, it's proof of why the stigma around these issues is so dangerous.
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But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.
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I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.
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And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.
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One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.
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God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.
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I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!
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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.
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We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.
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When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass.
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And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.
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Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.
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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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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
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It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.
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When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
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I left. When I should have stayed.
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