350 Quotes by Jay Asher

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?

You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much – too tiring – and you consider letting go.

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.

There are a lot of people out there who – for a variety of reasons – have a hard time stepping beyond their own ideas about certain subjects to explore the lives of others. So I wanted the readers to focus on the characters caught in the middle, rather than the issues themselves.

To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.

Did you know dimples are actually a deformity?” he continues. “It means he has a muscle in his face that grew too short. It’s kind if gross if you think about it.

There’s just something about having everyone agree on something – something about you – that opens a cage of butterflies in your stomach.

Il mio cuore e la mia fiducia erano ormai ai minimi termini. E questo tracollo stava scavando un vuoto nel mio petto. Come se ogni nervo del corpo si stesse ritirando verso l’interno, abbandonando le dita delle mani e dei piedi. Fino a scomparire.

That’s why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.