Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why (2007)

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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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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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Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

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

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

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And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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