Jay Asher
Jay Asher
Jay Asher is an American writer of contemporary novels for teens. He has one major publication in the genre of young adult literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth30 September 1975
CityArcadia, CA
CountryUnited States of America
rumor knows
And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.
kissing firsts first-kiss
Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).
heart events sat
I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.
running mean thinking
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?
being-true turns disappointed
It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.
party tangled stories
If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.
dark world wanted
That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.
growing hours made
and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy