Jenny Han Quotes

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“I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn’t keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn’t right”

“One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.”

“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”

“You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.”

“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”

“But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean”

“Things have a way of settling back.”

“You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.”

“One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When”

“It's kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted, isn't it?”

“I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.”

“I hate change more than almost anything.”

“And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.”

“It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.”

“It's hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt.”

“It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.”

“There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.”

“There have been other girls. But they weren't her.”

“I loved him in a way you can really on do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to - it's dizzy and foolish and fierce.”

“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”

“When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.”

“They seem to have noticed her for the first time”

“I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.”

“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old.”

“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? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kind of things.”

“It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”

“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”

“I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”

“I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.”

“Is this your feller?”
“No, not really,” I say, and Peter throws his arm around my shoulder and says, “Yes, sir. I'm her feller”

“She told me to try not to go to college with a boyfriend. She said she didn"t want me to be the girl crying on the phone with her boyfriend and saying no to things instead of yes”

“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”

“I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.”

“She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.”

“That's when I see him. Peter Kavinsky, walking down the hallway. Like magic. Beautiful, dark-haired Peter. He deserves background music, he looks so good.”

“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

“Wanna hear something funny?”
“What?”
“I think I started liking you.”

“That's life. Things don't always work out.”

“He's being sarcastic. I hate when people are sarcastic. It's so cheap.”

“I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Rennie’s one true love. For Alex’s best friend.
It has to end here. Now.”

“There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage.”

“I don’t want to.. you know, fall for you any worse than I already have.”

“I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”

“The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.”