“I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“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 wi…”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“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.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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. Everyt…”— Jay Asher, amazon.com