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Clay Jensen Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“Hannah Baker: Do you think I could ever be as pretty as Jessica Davis? [awkward silence] Great. Thanks. Got it.

Clay Jensen: No, I—I just... I mean, yeah, Jessica's pretty and all, but you're special.

Hannah Baker: Special. Like retarded.

Clay Jensen: Did I say retarded? I didn't say retarded, and I don't think we're supposed to use that word anymore.

Hannah Baker: Regardless...I saw you try to be kind... and, you know, fail.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 1, Side B
Tagged: Retarded, Pretty, Special, Trying To Be Kind, Failure In Life
“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
“Matt Jensen: Did you shower?

Clay Jensen: I totally showered.

Matt Jensen: I feel it's possible you didn't shower.

Clay Jensen: I didn't shower. Look, I just...I turned the water on just now, and I thought about it all, the whole thing, taking clothes off, dealing with hair, and I just...I couldn't do it. Look, we shower, like...every day, and it's just...a lot.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 3, Side A
Tagged: showering, cleanliness
“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: So that guy Brad…is he your boyfriend now?

Tony Padilla: I hope he’s still my boyfriend. He’s been pretty annoyed lately because…I’ve been spending all my time with another guy. You.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side B
Tagged: Boyfriend, Cheating, gay
“I lied. Um, I did know Hannah Baker. We worked together all the time at the Crestmont. We had classes together. Uh… She was my friend. And I miss her… really fucking bad. I didn’t know how empty it would feel. There’s this big part of the world that’s just…just gone, and everyone else just keeps moving forward. The worst part is, there’s…there’s nothing I can do. I can’t save her, I can’t…I can’t bring her back. I’m…I’m completely fucking useless.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 5, Side A
Tagged: Friendship, Loss
“Clay Jensen: Every day they live not knowing the truth. They need this, Sheri.

Sheri Holland: They do, or you do?

Clay Jensen: Sheri, they're hurting.

Sheri Holland: How do you know that? Did you go see them?

Clay Jensen: That's not the point. You can't keep this secret anymore.

Sheri Holland: It's my secret, not yours.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 5, Side B
Tagged: Secrets, Truth
“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
“Jeff Atkins: You've got a fat slider in your sweet spot. You've got to swing the bat through the strike zone and knock it out. See, I'm aware those are baseball terms.

Clay Jensen: If I'm interpreting correctly, given my batting average, I would wind up with a strikeout and not a home run. Very good use of an extended metaphor.

Jeff Atkins: Oh, fuck me, Jensen! Get the hell in there, man! Now, okay? Now or I'm gonna kick your ass.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: baseball, Batting Average, Slider, Strikeout, Home Run
“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
“Skye Miller [to Tony]: He's got existential crisis written on his forehead.

Clay Jensen: I do not.

Skye Miller: There's some truth you don't want to face.

Clay Jensen: Why did you say that?

Skye Miller: I see the future.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: Existential Crisis, Fear of Truth
“Clay Jensen [about Skye]: She doesn't know what was going on in Hannah's life.

Tony Padilla: You don't know what's going on in hers.

Clay Jensen: Would you.. you know, shut up, Tony? I get so sick of your little sayings, and things you point out, acting all wise. You're like this unhelpful Yoda.

Tony Padilla: Is that a crack on my height?”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 6, Side A
Tagged: yoda, Unhelpful Yoda
“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
“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
“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
“Every drama has to be your drama or it doesn't count. Somehow, this is all about you.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 5, Side B
Tagged: Drama, Drama Queen, Narcissism
“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
“Clay Jensen: I think I'm losing my shit.

Skye Miller: Shit's overrated.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side A
Tagged: Shit, Overrated, Losing Your Shit
“It has to get better. The way we treat each other and look out for each other. It has to get better somehow.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Optimism, It Gets Better
“Everybody wants to talk. No one wants to do anything.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side B
Tagged: inaction
“Everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 4, Side A
Tagged: Suicide
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