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
desire teens
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
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.
shining personality best-smile
Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.
school people high-school
And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.
heart air car
He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. 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.
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.
should should-i
I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.
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
eye two stories
And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.