Favorite Couples : #15/24 - Clay & Hannah from 13 Reasons Why -
“Clay…Helmet. Your name does not belong on this list. But you need to be here if I’m going to tell my story. If I’m going to explain why I did what I did. Because you aren’t every other guy. You’re different. You’re good, and kind, and decent. And I didn’t deserve to be with someone like you. I never would.”
One of the saddest parts, to me, is that Hannah says she was finally “at peace” when she was alone in the hot tub and then the worst possible thing happens to her and she says in that moment that she “already felt like [she] was dead”. This honestly breaks my heart. Fuck you Bryce Walker.
Katherine Langford | The Last Magazine | April 2017
Clay is socially awkward and doesn’t always say or do the right thing but he is a good person.
He did nothing wrong. He did exactly what Hannah told him to. He always does what people tell him to do. He always follows the rules. Hannah was upset and told him to leave and so he did.
But if he’d just looked beyond what she was yelling at him, he would have seen that the last thing she needed at that moment was to be alone. If he’d stopped being so nervous and just told her how he felt things might have turned out differently. If he’d just stopped being Clay for a second he would have seen that it was a cry for a help.
If he’d just stayed with her Jessica never would have been raped, Sheri wouldn’t have knocked the stop sign over, Jeff wouldn’t have died and Hannah might still be alive.
Clay did nothing wrong. How was he to know what Hannah was going through if she never told him? Clay is not the kind of person who can read how people are feeling and know what’s going on inside their head.
Clay, who has the kindest, most pure heart, blames himself. He did nothing wrong but he could have stopped it. The ‘what if’s’ are going to haunt him for the rest of his life and that breaks my heart.
me because all jeff wanted to do was play baseball, bring his grades up, and help Clay with life
“Is that a crack on my height?”
i’m literally so sick of people saying zach deserved better or hannah was a bitch to him. look, i like zach. zach has redeeming qualities and seems like a genuinely good person who just makes mistakes. but in no way is hannah the bitch for turning him down.
because think about it, why would she accept? zach’s best friend spread inappropriate pictures of her through the school. two of his friends sexually assaulted her. zach himself was one of the boys we see making lewd gestures at hannah in the halls. zach was not some good guy who hannah turned down for no reason. she didn’t trust him, and she had no reason to.
and y'all seem to forget how right after hannah turned him down, he decided to take away one of the only things that made her feel good. even before her letter, she told him she checked it every day no matter what.
zach is an interesting character with redeemable qualities, but you can’t just say he didn’t belong on the tapes and hannah’s a bitch for turning him down.
13 reasons
13 tapes
12 people
3 broke her heart
3 broke her soul
3 broke her spirit
2 used her
1 loved her
two smiles that deserved better
(via danverscarol)
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