Jenny Han: Want

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“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

Jenny Han

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“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.”

Jenny Han

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

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

Jenny Han

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“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.”

Jenny Han

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

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

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write in my letter, I'm not longer consumed by my all-consuming love… My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don’t just want a part of you. I want all of you

Jeremiah Fisher”

Jenny Han

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.”

Jenny Han

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.”

Jenny Han

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

“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.”

Jenny Han

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want… life to start happening. I want to fall in love and want a boy to fall in love with me back -Lara Jean”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Hearing him say it now, that is was my birthday present, touched me in the last place I wanted him to touch me. My heart.”

Jenny Han

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before