Jay Asher Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

I do use FaceTime because I'm frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

Today, loss is something everybody feels. It could be the loss of a friend moving away. It could be your best friend moves to the other side of town or his family does. It's a loss.

This Internet stuff is definitely not my future.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.