{"author":"Jay Asher","author_id":"Jay+Asher","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.Maybe. I don’t know. But I was careful never to give myself away.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["confusion","longing","salvation","secret","self-analysis"],"id":3444,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["accurate","self-awareness"],"id":5373,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"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.If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["meaning","thinking","thoughts"],"id":19825,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"You okay?”It’s a residential street, but it’s not the street of the party.I shake my head no.“Are you going to be okay?” he asks.I lean back, resting my head against the seat, and close my eyes. “I miss her.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["i-cried","miss-her","tears"],"id":61858,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["betrayal"],"id":74612,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["headache","migraine","pain"],"id":76714,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore. 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.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["life-lessons"],"id":77157,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["care","impact","life","reach-out","think"],"id":82494,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["think","you","serious "],"id":91283,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"},{"text":"Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... Her... Alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.","author":"Jay Asher","tags":["feminism","personal-space","sickening"],"id":98578,"author_id":"Jay+Asher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}