13 Reasons Why – Series Quotes

Why would a dead girl lie?

It’s a party, so I’m pretending to have fun.

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we’d all be a little bit happier.

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

Do not take me for granted. Not again.

— 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.

And I'm scared because I don't know how to fly. But you're there at the bottom of the slide to catch me when I fall.

Secret-keeping is learned behavior. As is the silence.

So, you see, that's where the trouble began. That smile. That damned smile.

— 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.

Clay knew who he was... but he wasn't sure he knew who Justin was anymore. And without Justin, it felt to him like Clay Jensen versus the world.

— I just feel like maybe I'm just not meant to be happy, or like...
— Listen, man, happiness, it just makes us unhappy.
— I thought for a minute maybe I had found something kinda close, but... I was just wrong.
— Shit. It's just like we chase shit that we think is gonna make us happy, but it doesn't. It just ends sad. Every fucking time. Every fucking time! That's why you gotta be OK not being happy. That's what sets you free. That's what makes us free. The fact that you can just let go of everything and just say, "Fuck it", you know? Just fuck it all.