350 Quotes by Jay Asher

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

In the end....everything matters.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

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.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

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.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?