100+ Best 'Clay Jensen' Quotes from 13 Reasons Why

Dr. Robert Ellman: You will, you know. Survive.

Clay Jensen: Yeah. I know it now.

Quote from 13 Reasons Why 4x10 | (Clay is reading Justin's college essay and imagines he's with him in the room...) Clay Jensen: "I didn't really grow up with much positivity in my life. And if I had influences around me, they were definitely bad. My mother was a drug addict. Her revolving door of boyfriends, mostly drug addicts too. I had a best friend I used to look up to, but then he hurt people close to me, and now he's dead." Jesus, Justin, talk about dark. Justin Foley: Just... keep going. Clay Jensen: "There was a time in my life I truly had nothing but the clothes on my back and the regret for the people I'd hurt. And then a person came into my life. A person named Clay Jensen." You wrote about me? Justin Foley: They, uh... They said to write about a positive influence in your life. Clay Jensen: "Even when I was puking all over his room, he was there. He's always been there, which is why even though I've never had a proper family, I know what it feels like to have one because Clay gave that to me. Because he's my... He's my..." Justin Foley: "He's my brother. He's my positive influence. He's the reason I'm alive and able to write this college essay in the first place." Clay Jensen: I miss you. How am I supposed to do this without you? Justin Foley: Clay, it's like you said. You'll survive.

Clay Jensen: This is where I first listened to my tape. And this is where we lay them to rest.

Tony Padilla: Rest in peace.

Zach Dempsey: Come on, people. Let's pile on the closure dirt.

(Clay's imagination...)

Clay Jensen: What I don't get is why ghost you is hanging out with Bryce? Even in my head.

Justin Foley: We loved each other, me and him. We were brothers. You know, you can love people who did... bad sh*t. You can forgive people. Even the people who hurt you worst.

Clay Jensen: You're talking about Hannah.

Justin Foley: When you forgive someone, it's more for you than them.

Clay Jensen: How much I hurt... with Hannah. Always. It's my fault. I fall in love with girls too fast, too hard.

Quote from 13 Reasons Why 4x10 | (Clay's graduation speech) Clay Jensen: I suffer from anxiety... and, uh, depression. But mostly anxiety. I sometimes think all of us kids do, in some way. And how could we not, with the world the way it is? We hear a lot of promises that things will get better. And... and, look, maybe they will, maybe they won't. And what I think I've learned, what I wanna say to you...is whatever happens, keep moving. Get through it. Choose to live. 'Cause even on the worst day, there... are people who love you. There's new music waiting for you to hear, some... something you haven't seen before that will blow your mind in the best way. Even on the worst day, life is a pretty spectacular thing.

(Clay's graduation speech)

Clay Jensen: My dad loves to tell me stories about when he was in high school. The stories usually involve chess club and obscure bands with funny haircuts, because the '80s were a strange, strange time. But he always gets one thing right. He knows high school can hurt. That it can be painful. That there are days when that's all it is. And he once told me that he's living proof... you can survive. You can get through it. He's living proof, and so am I. And so are all of you. And the thing is, for me, for us, this class, this... this generation, high school actually is life or death. We show up every day not knowing if this is the day we die. If this is the day someone shows up with a gun and tries to kill us all. We practice what we'll do if that happens. Life or death.

Clay Jensen (narration): My mom asked me if I wanted to say something at Justin's funeral. I wanted to, for him, but I couldn't. What could I say? Running theme, huh?

Tony Padilla: I wish there was something I could say or do.

Clay Jensen: Yeah. What is there? Thank you for wanting to, though. You always make things better.

Tony Padilla: I just show up, man. That's all I do.

Clay Jensen: Always. More than I have for you.

Tony Padilla: No. No, we show up for each other.

Clay Jensen: No one gets through this life alone, man.

Clay Jensen: I'm... I'm so sorry, Justin. I don't know how to do this.

Justin Foley: Hey. You're doing... You're doing it great.

Clay Jensen: Thank you for saving my life. Like, more times than you know. I love you.

Justin Foley: I love... I love... love you... you too, man.

Clay Jensen (narration): As the night got later, we just kept dancing and dancing like there was nothing else. Like it was the end of the world. Like it was the end of the world.

(Justin collapses...)

Clay Jensen (narration): And it was.

(Clay jumps on a car with a megaphone and speaks up...)

Clay Jensen: Hey! Hey, hold on! Don't run away from this. Listen! Listen to me! Look, they're gonna try to make us think that we're the problem, but we are not the problem! We go to the school that they built for us. We live in the society that they made for us, and sh*t is broken! Sh*t is wrong! And they can't fix it. They won't! So it's our turn now. We're gonna make it right if we have to burn it down and start over. So I say f*ck it all!

Student: F*ck, yeah!

Clay Jensen: We're fighting. Who's with me?

Students: Yeah!

Clay Jensen: F*ck it all! F*ck it all! Let's go!

Students: Yeah!

College interviewer: What's most important to you, Clay?

Clay Jensen: My friends. I've, uh... I've made a lot of mistakes, some bad choices, and I don't always... I don't always think things through. But I know that if a friend needs me, or is in danger, or anything, if there is anything I can do to help them, I will. Uh... I'm really... really trying to do the right thing. I am. Even when it's not clear what that is. 'Cause I don't want to live my life based on someone else's idea of... what's right, or what's moral, or what's good. I want to figure it out for myself. Even if I make mistakes along the way. And the one thing I know... is it is never wrong to care about your friends. It's never wrong to be a human being and love someone as well as you can.

Quote from 13 Reasons Why 4x06 | Clay Jensen: What the f*ck? What the actual f*ck are you thinking? Principal: Clay, would you take a seat in my office, please? Clay Jensen: No! I will not take a seat in your office! You think that this is the way to make us safe? You know what would make me feel safe? Not having to go to a school with metal detectors or video cameras or armed f***ing guards! (Students comes out of classrooms to see what is going on...) Principal: There's still class, folks. OK? Bell has not rung. Clay Jensen: No, you're killing us! You are killing us! Don't you get that? You made a drill with gunshots and hammered down the door to prepare us for what? What it feels like to be hunted? To practice getting ready to die, to make us feel afraid for our lives? We already know how that feels! You're scaring us to death! Every day! Every day! Every day! Deputy: Calm down, son. Clay Jensen: I am not your goddamn son! Get the f*ck away from me! We are children! We're kids! We should be living our f***ing lives instead of practicing how to cheat death, because you know what? Everybody f***ing dies! Everybody dies! So, please, please let us live!

Clay Jensen: Amazing. I mean, how can you guys be punks and geeks at the same time?

Cyrus: There aren't genres anymore, Clay. No labels, just people.

Clay Jensen: I mean, you just called the jocks "jocks."

Cyrus: It's how they self-identify. I'm just being respectful.

Cyrus' Friend: Preach.

Clay Jensen (narration): The truth is, you're right, I have been in love before. I've done a lot of what I've done out of love, and where's it ever gotten me? Love has made me angry, paranoid, afraid. Love has made me a monster, more than once. Love has only f*cked up my life, has made me question my relationships, my closest friends. And God knows, love has made my closest friends question me. So you know what? F*ck love.

(Clay wins in drinking game)

University students: Corey! Corey!

Zach Dempsey: Feels good, doesn't it?

University students: Corey! Corey!

Clay Jensen: It does for Corey.

Clay Jensen (narration): Why am I always Corey?

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