How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
It might not seem like a big deal to you, Zach. But now, I hope you understand. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. (9.155)
Zach steals Hannah's notes in her Peer Communications class because he feels like Hannah has snubbed him. At least, that's what she thinks his motivation was. Even though Zach and Hannah aren't close, she trusts him enough to feel betrayed when she catches him acting so cruelly.
Quote #5
No one insisted on knowing those topics. But for some reason, they refused to have a discussion on suicide without specifics. (9.225)
Hannah feels betrayed by her classmates when they ridicule the anonymous note she leaves about feeling suicidal. In "Why Should I Care?" we suggest that this book is effective in doing what wasn't done in Hannah's class, starting a much-needed conversation about suicide and how to prevent it.
Quote #6
It was never a lost poem, Ryan. And you never found it, so it did not belong in your collection. (10.153)
Take that, Ryan. Ryan Shaver betrays Hannah by stealing a very private poem and publishing it in the school paper, presenting it as something he found lying around. This betrayal hurts badly because Hannah has to listen to the whole school analyze and make fun of her poem. She trusted Ryan and thought he was a potential friend, somebody who understood what she was going through – boy was she mistaken.