“The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with sections dedicated to teen lit, nor was my generation raised reading books written specifically for us. Because of that, today we still think of books for teens as children's books and so when you write a book that includes sensitive topics, it just seems even more controversial. What's troubling to me about that is these are issues adults know that teens deal with. Not writing about them makes them something we don't, or can't talk about.” ThinkingWritingKindBookTodayReadingLiteratureYoung AdultSensitiveDedicatedReading BooksLitControversial Author:Jay Asher
“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.” ThinkingFeelsSometimesRunningInteresting Book:Thirteen Reasons Why Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“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?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWellsMeanIdeasSometimesRunningInterestingMillionsInsane Author:Jay Asher
“I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.” ThinkingSorryI'm Sorry Book:Thirteen Reasons Why Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.” ThinkingMadeEnoughBehindsClearDoorsNeededSorryStayingI'm Sorry Author:Jay Asher
“I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.” ThinkingNeedsDadDrugDoctorsMy DadDealerMy BirthdayDrug Dealers Book:The Future of Us Source: The Future of Us
“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.” ThinkingFirstsWantedHurtTalkingFirst TimeScary Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
