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Zach Dempsey is the seventh name on Hannah’s list. He approaches Hannah after Marcus leaves her alone in Rosie’s, though she’s visibly upset and unable to talk to him. After Zach leaves Hannah’s table, she hears his friends taunting him for his failure to connect with her. Soon after that incident, Hannah finds Zach stealing her notes of encouragement from her paper bag at the back of Peer Communications class—notes that were the only scrap of hope she felt she could rely on. Hannah understands Zach’s theft as revenge for the fact that she showed no interest in him at Rosie’s. She confronts Zach, but his failure to respond to her makes her feel even more neglected and devalued: not only does he think she doesn’t deserve the compliments he stole, he also thinks she doesn’t deserve an explanation for his behavior. He's yet another person in Hannah’s life who doesn’t respect her feelings, and whose actions deprive her of hope.
Zach Dempsey Quotes in Thirteen Reasons Why
The Thirteen Reasons Why quotes below are all either spoken by Zach Dempsey or refer to Zach Dempsey. 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 4: Side A
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Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you, Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered.
And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it.
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Zach Dempsey Quotes in Thirteen Reasons Why
The Thirteen Reasons Why quotes below are all either spoken by Zach Dempsey or refer to Zach Dempsey. 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:
).
Cassette 4: Side A
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Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you, Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered.
And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it.
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