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Justin Foley is the first name on Hannah’s list. He’s a senior at Hannah’s school, but in his sophomore year, he was Hannah’s first kiss. After that kiss, he spread rumors about Hannah being sexually provocative, effectively beginning a snowball effect that would cause Hannah’s reputation to deteriorate amongst her peers. A couple of years later, Justin reappears in Hannah’s taped story at a big party, where he lets his friend, Bryce, into the bedroom where Jessica is in bed, drunk and unconscious, knowing Bryce wants to have nonconsensual sex with Jessica. Justin stands by as Bryce rapes Jessica, emphasizing that he values his male friendships more than his romantic partners and highlighting the gender inequality that harms many of the novel’s female characters.
Justin Foley Quotes in Thirteen Reasons Why
The Thirteen Reasons Why quotes below are all either spoken by Justin Foley or refer to Justin Foley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Cassette 1: Side A Quotes
The dream starts with me at the top of the rocket, holding on to the steering wheel. It’s still a playground rocket, not a real one, but every time I turn the wheel to the left, the trees in the park lift up their roots and sidestep it to the left. When I turn the wheel to the right, they sidestep it to the right.
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In this passage, Hannah describes a dream she has for several nights leading up to her kiss with Justin. In the dream, she climbs to the top of the rocket slide, which is the same as the slide she used to play on in the town she lived in before this one. In this way, the rocket slide is a bridge between her young, carefree life and the present period of her life, which is full of sadness and suffering due to false rumors her peers have spread about her. The rocket slide is a place where Hannah can feel Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. M
Cassette 5: Side A Quotes
How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?
Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful. Much, much more painful than the others.
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On the tape, Hannah explains why she felt unable to fully connect with Clay at the party. She’s used to the pattern of her hopefulness turning into disappointment when someone lets her down. This is the first time she consciously decides not to open up to someone. Though she had been suspicious about Marcus and Ryan, for instance, whom she refers to here as “the others,” she did eventually force herself to trust them. But because their behavior made her feel worthless, she’s finally unable to fully open up to Clay, whom she evidently feels much more deeply connected to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaqu
Cassette 5: Side B Quotes
The bedroom door opened again. But again, you pulled it shut. And you tried to make a joke of it. “Trust me,” you said, “she won’t move. She’ll just lay there.”
And what was his response? What was it? What was his reasoning for you to step aside and let him in that room? Do you remember? Because I do.
It was the night shift.
He told you he was working the night shift and had to leave in a few minutes.
A few minutes, that’s all he needed with her. So just relax and step aside.
And that’s all it took for you to let him open the door.
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After Justin leaves Jessica in a bedroom at the party—a bedroom Hannah happens to be in—Bryce convinces him to let him into the room. Hannah can hear that Justin tries to alleviate the situation through humor, which shows that though he values Jessica’s safety, he doesn’t take it seriously enough to earnestly express his concern to Bryce or make much of an effort to keep him out. Justin clearly knows that Bryce wants to have sex with Jessica. Instead of telling him that he shouldn’t, because Jessica isn’t conscious enough to give consent (which would make the encounter sexual assault), Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempo
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Justin Foley Character Timeline in Thirteen Reasons Why
The timeline below shows where the character Justin Foley appears in Thirteen Reasons Why. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Cassette 1: Side A
...go there, if they do, they’ll understand her story better. Then, she begins to address Justin Foley, a senior. Clay knows Justin was Hannah’s first kiss, but he begins to wonder...
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...the location of her first house in this town and the first place she saw Justin. One summer day before Hannah’s freshman year, she and her friend Kat waited at Kat’s...
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Hannah continues her story: she and Justin grow closer thanks to the fact that most of their classes are near each other....
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On the tape, Hannah describes the conversation she and Justin had when she called him back that afternoon. He gives her a math problem: Train...
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...climb the rocket ship and think of home. For the few nights before she meets Justin in the park, she dreams that she’s sliding down the rocket ship slide toward Justin....
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Hannah enjoys dating Justin for about a month following their kiss, but then Justin starts to spread rumors that...
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Cassette 1: Side B
...day before the start of school—what if she had been attracted to Zach instead of Justin? Would she still be alive?
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Cassette 2: Side A
...aren’t true. It’s easy for Jessica to believe a rumor about Hannah and Alex because Justin already started other rumors about Hannah. Hannah says she knows Jessica and Alex had a...
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Cassette 5: Side A
...tape, Hannah doesn’t name the people they sat down beside, but Clay remembers they were Justin and Jessica, and they were kissing each other. He also realizes that Hannah couldn’t escape...
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...and Clay’s kisses feel like first kisses to her, and that makes her think of Justin—the anticipation of their first kiss, followed by the way Justin ruined the memory of it....
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...She discovers that the next connection—the person who entered the room after Clay left it—is Justin.
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At the end of this tape, Hannah tells Clay that, because Justin already received these tapes, he should skip to the next person when he sends them...
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Cassette 5: Side B
...Tony again why Hannah gave Tony the second set of tapes. Tony says he’ll tell Justin once they arrive at the party house.
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...was the start of something good. Soon after Clay leaves, the couple from the couch (Justin and Jessica, though Hannah doesn’t name them on the tape) come in, the girl so...
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Hannah stays crouched on the floor. She thinks Justin will stop soon, given that Jessica is so drunk she’s unresponsive. He keeps asking her...
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Hannah’s story continues. That night, after Justin leaves Jessica in bed, Hannah sees his shoes outside the door and can tell he’s...
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Cassette 6: Side A
...goes home early. After a few days, he goes back to school and notices that Justin looks terrible; after that, he notices the same thing about Alex. He decides to make...
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...she describes as the central knot of all the listeners’ tangled storylines. After she and Justin stop staring at each other, she wanders back into the party and sits down. She...
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