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“How can you fix something if you don't know what's broken? Hannah didn't tell us.”
— Oliva Baker, 13 Reasons Why, Season 2: The Little Girl
Tagged: Fixing What Is Broken
“The truth doesn't always make things right. You should know that better than anyone.”
— Jessica Davis, 13 Reasons Why, Season 2: The Drunk Slut
Tagged: Truth, Being Honest
“No matter how matter reasons there are, there are always more reasons why not.”
— Oliva Baker, 13 Reasons Why, Season 2: Bye
“Clay Jensen: Vampires, aliens, even werewolves, I get it. I get the motivation, I get the metaphors, right? But, like, zombies? They're just... They're just stupid.

Hannah Baker: So you hate zombies? You're a zombie racist.

Clay Jensen: Just, like, I don't understand 'em. What's their story? They don't want to take over the world, kill their masters, anything interesting. They're not good or evil. They're just hungry... for brains. I mean, like, brains.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 2, Side B
Tagged: Vampires, Aliens, Ghosts, zombies, Zombie Racist
“Clay Jensen: Well, the Founding Fathers did grow and use hemp...but it wasn't weed, exactly.

Jeff Atkins: Those are different?

Clay Jensen: Yeah. Yeah, so James Madison probably wasn't a mad stoner, or, uh, at least not from the hemp.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 3, Side B
Tagged: Founding Fathers, Weed, Hemp, Marijuana, James Madison, Stonder
“Those tapes are messing me up. They’re doing shit to my head.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side A
Tagged: Mindblowing
“Clay Jensen: It’s Justin Foley and Zach Dempsey, star basketball players here at Liberty High. Hey, Justin, where’s my bike? Justin stole my bike.

Justin Foley: What the fuck? What are you doing?

Clay Jensen: I’m giving our new foreign exchange students a tour. Figured they should know who owns the school, right, you guys?”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side A
Tagged: Fuck, What the Fuck, Exchange Students
“Clay Jensen: I thought maybe…I thought maybe you were in love with her.

Tony Padilla: Clay…you know I’m gay, right?

Clay Jensen: What? No, I didn’t know that. How was I supposed to know that?

Tony Padilla: I thought everyone knew it.

Clay Jensen: I don’t think everyone knows.

Tony Padilla: A lot of people know it.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side B
Tagged: gay, Closeted, Love
“Clay Jensen: Did I kill Hannah Baker?

Tony Padilla: No, she took her own life, Clay. That was her choice. But you, me, everyone on these tapes, we all let her down. We didn't let her know that she had another choice. Maybe we could have saved her, maybe not. I think it's impossible to know.

Clay Jensen: Answer the fucking question. Knowing what you know, believing what you believe, knowing me, knowing her, and what's on these tapes...did I kill Hannah Baker?

Tony Padilla: Yeah.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 5, Side B
Tagged: Murder, Suicide, Guilt, Culpability
“Hannah Baker [from the tape]: I was so nervous that night, but you made it seem so...

Clay Jensen [to Tony]: Easy? Is she kidding me? I was shitting myself.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Nervous, Shitting Myself
“Hannah Baker [about Jeff]: So...you tutor him in academics, and he tutors you in...

Clay Jensen: Girls. Girl. Singular.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Tutoring, Girls, matchmaker
“Clay Jensen: I need to throw up. I don't have anything to throw up.

Tony Padilla: You need some food.

Clay Jensen: So I can throw it up?

Tony Padilla: So you can settle the fuck down.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Throwing Up, Vomiting, Fuck, settle
“Clay Jensen: And this just gets worse, right?

Tony Padilla: You afraid?

Clay Jensen: Yeah. I'm gonna listen anyway.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 5, Side B
Tagged: Just Gets Worse, perseverance
“Clay Jensen: How in the hell am I supposed to listen to this?

Tony Padilla: I think the asshole answer is you put the headphones on, the cassette tape in, and you press play.

Clay Jensen: That is the asshole answer, isn't it?

Tony Padilla: Yeah, but it's true.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: asshole, Headphones, Cassette
“Jessica Davis: The party hasn't started. No one's going to be here for another hour.

Clay Jensen: Oh. But I thought... I heard it started at seven?

Jessica Davis: Yeah. And, A, it's 6:55, and, B, seven really means nine.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Tardy to the Party, Punctuality, CP Time
“Matt Jensen: You still drinking coffee?

Clay Jensen: You're still drinking coffee.

Matt Jensen: Yes. I guess we just hope for more for our children.

Clay Jensen: We'll probably live longer, if that helps. If your generation doesn't destroy the planet first.

Matt Jensen: It's too late, I'm afraid.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side B
Tagged: Generational Animosity, Caffeine Addiction
“Clay Jensen: I couldn't...I couldn't tell her. I couldn't hold her. I killed Hannah Baker. Like you said.

Tony Padilla: I said we all killed Hannah.

Clay Jensen: How am I supposed to live with that?

Tony Padilla: Any way you can.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Guilt, Murder, coping
“It's time we stop thinking about what Hannah wanted and start thinking about what she needs.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Wants, Needs
“Clay Jensen: Thanks for talking to me about this. And I guess let me know if there's anything...if there's anything.

Jessica Davis: Clay. Don't burn the tapes.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Destroying Evidence
“I wanted to talk about Hannah Baker. She pushed me away. I was thinking about how hurt I was, and I didn't even for a minute stop to think that...she was hurting, too.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Pushing Away, hurt, Empathy
“But wouldn't you like to know what happened after Hannah left that day? She walked out of this office...and she hoped you would come after her. But you didn't. You let her walk away. We all let her walk away. She walked out of school... went home... and put some things in order. She returned her uniform to the Crestmont, where I worked with her. She didn't say anything. She dropped it on the counter and walked away. She dropped a package off with a friend, then took another to the post office.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Walking Away
“Kevin Porter: Clay... we don't know what was in her mind or in her heart. There's no way to know why she did what she did.

Clay Jensen: Actually, there is a way. Before she died... Hannah recorded 13 reasons why she killed herself. And you're number 13. And everyone who comes before you on these tapes knows what you did and didn't do. And they always will. And they'll know what they did. You're the last person to get the tapes. Hannah didn't leave any instructions on what happens after you... so you get to decide. And I added tape number 14... which I hope will help you make that decision.

Kevin Porter: How do you have these tapes?

Clay Jensen: I'm number 11.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Suicide, Legal Evidence
“Tony Padilla: Should I put a tape on?

Clay Jensen: How about we just listen to the radio?

Tony Padilla: That's a great idea.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: radio, Cassette Tapes
“Clay Jensen: I cost a girl her life because I was afraid to love her.

Kevin Porter: You can't love someone back to life.

Clay Jensen: You can try.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Sadness, Regret
“I love you. And I will never hurt you. I’m not going. Not now. Not ever. I love you.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Sweet Things To Say, I Love You
“It seemed like no matter what I did, I kept letting people down. I started thinking how everyone's lives would be better without me.”
— Hannah Baker, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side B
Tagged: Depression, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide
“Today, I am wearing lacy black underwear for the sole purpose of knowing I am wearing them. And underneath that, I am absolutely naked. And I've got skin. Miles and miles of skin. I've got skin to cover all my thoughts like Saran Wrap that you can see through to what leftovers are inside from the night before. ”
— Hannah Baker, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side B
Tagged: lingerie, skin, Saran Wrap, Leftovers
“Look, I hated high school. I couldn't wait to get out. It was hell for me. I was a target more than once.”
— Mr. Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side A
Tagged: high school, bullying
“A rumor based on a kiss ruined a memory that I hoped would be special. In fact, it ruined just about everything as you'll soon see.”
— Brian Yorkey, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 1, Side A
Tagged: Rumor, kiss
“Just, like, I don't understand 'em. What's their story? They don't want to take over the world, kill their masters, anything interesting. They're not good or evil. They're just hungry for brains. I mean, like, brains.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 2, Side B
Tagged: zombies, Good, Evil
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