Jenny Han Quotes

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”

“Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?”

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”

“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”

“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”

“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

“I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”

“But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.”

“You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J”

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. - Lara Jean”

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer”

“I sank onto the deck. My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.”

“We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I'm right here, I wanted to tell him. I'm still here.”

“I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn’t be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough.”

“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”

“He gestured at me. “That’s Belly.”
“Belly?” she repeated.
“Yup. She’s my girlfriend.”
I think I choked out loud.”

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”

“I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go." - Belly Conklin”

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”

“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity

-Belly Conklin”

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”

“Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”

“You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared.”

“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”

“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”

“I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”

“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”

“I didn't fall for you, you tripped me!”

“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”

“He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised..”

“Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

“I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.
“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”

“I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.”

“I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.”

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

“She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

“I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”

“I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.”

“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

“How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?”

“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

“It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop”

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

“I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”

“So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”

“Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”

“Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.”

“Sometimes I think I’ll never trust another girl the way I trust you.”

“I never once cheated on you. I never even looked at another girl when we were together.”

Conrad Fisher”

“It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”