Clay Jensen – Character Quotes

— You literally can manufacture an existential crisis out of thin air.
– It’s a gift!

— I think I'm losing my shit.
— Shit's overrated. Lose it.

— She left. She just...left/
— Why?
— 'Cause... 'Cause I think she thinks I care about shit I don't care about.

— We're still attempting that?
— Attempting and achieving.

— Oh, wait, everyone. It's Justin Foley and Zach Dempsey, star basketball players here at Liberty High. Hey, Justin, where's my bike? Justin stole my bike.
— What the fuck? What are you doing?
— I'm giving our new foreign exchange students a tour. Figured they should know who owns the school, right, you guys?
— Clay.
— Right, right. Moving on. Where were we? Right. The auditorium. Oh, oh, but before we go... I want to show you something super cool. Okay?
— Clay, cut it out.
— Look at these lockers. They all look alike, right? Not this one. This one is special. It belonged to a girl who killed herself.
— Clay, come on!
— You see all these "don't kill yourself" posters up on the wall? They weren't up before. They put them up because she killed herself. And why did she do it? Because the kids her treated her like shit!
— Jensen, that's enough.
— But no one wants to admit it, so they paint over the bathrooms and put up the memorial, because that's the kind of school that this is! Everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself! And sooner or later the truth will come out! It's gonna come out.

— I couldn't... I couldn't tell her. I couldn't hold her. I killed Hannah Baker. Like you said.
— I said we all killed Hannah.
— How am I supposed to live with that?
— Any way you can.

I cost a girl her life because I was afraid to love her.

— I found this. Your college essay. The one that got you in. I didn'n read it. It's personal.
— Dude, I mean, we have literally breathed each other's farts. You've walked in on me jerking off more times than you even know, and now you draw the line?

— Everyone deserves to be saved.
— Then why aren't you saved him?
— Then why didn't you saved me?
— And me?

— Oh, you... you find your drink?
— Yeah, it's a Z-Man rocks.
— A Z-Man rocks?
— Yeah.
— What's in it?
— Everything the Z-Man could get his hands on. On the rocks.

— Can you ever forgive me?
— I'm not who needs to forgive you.

— Do you feel more anxious when you're with others or when you're alone?
— Both?

Going back to school... after a two-week suspension... was like... like coming back from war.

Anxiety is a motherfucker. Excuse my language. Just everything that's out there, waiting to happend to you.

Love has made me angry, paranoid, afraid. Love has made me a monster, more than once.