Inspirational

'A small group of students took a big risk. They decided to start a raw and powerful dialogue about suicide. By putting themselves in front of 1,800 classmates and saying...look, I have a story, too. I have pain. I have been hurt, but there are not '13 reasons why' to give up."

“I thought, ‘Don’t panic or mom’s going to get scared'... I can’t lose her. I already lost my dad.”

"It’s pretty jarring to have your entire life and your entire family change in a split second. I was pretty crushed."

"I'm here to say that if I can do this being a military wife with a husband deployed, and on top of that this morning finding out that he wants to divorce me, then anybody can get up and do their workout."

"The heartbreak is overwhelming me tonight. The tears just won't stop. This first loss is more painful than I ever imagined it would be and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy."

“Just as the light became amazing I scrapped everything I knew and I walked up to them and said, ‘Guys, stop posing.'"

"For the first time we realized something terrible had happened. The shock of seeing him like that was the bleakest moment I've ever had."

"I sensed your panic when your five-year-old son pointed at my son in his wheelchair and shouted 'Mom look at THAT boy!'"