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“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.”
-- Jay Asher
#Book #People #Way
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“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.”
-- Jay Asher
#Life #Impact #People
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“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
#Love #Stars #Ocean
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“You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.”
-- Jay Asher
#Rumor
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“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
#Goes On #Mess #Persons
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“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”
-- Jay Asher
#Inspirational #Change #Past
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“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.”
-- Jay Asher
#Eye #Naked #Scar
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“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
-- Jay Asher
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“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”
-- Jay Asher
#Bullying #Responsibility #People
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“After all, how often do we get a second chance?”
-- Jay Asher
#Second Chance #Chance
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“Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.”
-- Jay Asher
#Letting Go #Struggle #Trying
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“I needed a break... from myself.”
-- Jay Asher
#Break #Needed
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“If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.”
-- Jay Asher
#Missing #Chance
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“I left. When I should have stayed.”
-- Jay Asher
#Should
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“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
#Trying #Weak #Walks
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“She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.”
-- Jay Asher
#Lying #Believe #Want
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“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
#Sorry #Long #Together
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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.”
-- Jay Asher
#Lasts #Remember #Trust Me
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“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
#Giving Up #Sorry
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“And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.”
-- Jay Asher
#Easy #Feels
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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.”
-- Jay Asher
#Hurt #Thinking #Talking
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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?”
-- Jay Asher
#Voice #Trying #Clay
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“Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).”
-- Jay Asher
#Kissing #First Kiss #Firsts
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“I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.”
-- Jay Asher
#Heart #Events #My Heart
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“Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.”
-- Jay Asher
#Awful
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“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”
-- Jay Asher
#Faces #Thrown
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“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
#Girl #Doe #Personal Space
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“Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.”
-- Jay Asher
#Roles #May #Matter
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“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
#War #Fire #Jumping
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“There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.”
-- Jay Asher
#People #Males #Bizarre
