Clay Jensen Quotes

″And she was new to the school, so the rumors overshadowed everything else I knew about her.”

″Clay, your reputation was deserved. But mine… mine was not. And there I was with you. Adding to my reputation.”

“With every side of every tape, an old memory gets turned upside down. A reputation twists into something I don’t recognize.”

“Two steps behind her, I say her name. ‘Skye.‘”

“That truth first came to light a few weeks ago, at a party, with Hannah directly in front of me. An amazing moment when everything seemed to be falling into place.”

“Why would you want to mail out a bunch of tapes blaming you in a suicide? You wouldn’t. But Hannah wants us, those of us on the list, to hear what she has to say. And we’ll do what she says if only to keep them away from the people not on the list.”

“This is not obsession. It’s respect. I’m living out her last requests.”

“It always makes me want to grab him by the shirt and push him until he lets the girl go. But instead, every time, I pretend not to notice. What could I do anyway?”

“But now it’s too late. And that’s why at this moment I feel so much hate. Toward myself. I deserve to be on this list. Because if I hadn’t been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared.”

“But no matter when I go back, the fact remains, eventually I need to face the other people on the tapes.”

“I hardly knew Hannah Baker. I mean, I wanted to. I wanted to know her more than I had the chance. […] [W]e never had the chance to get closer. And not once did I take her for granted. Not once.”