Jenny Han citations

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“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.”

“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.”

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”

“We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved”

“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”

“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.”

“Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always”

“In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we’d always come back. It’s scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that.”

“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”

“Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?”

“Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.”

“… When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s.”

“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”

“Conrad calling me again—that was enough to make me forget how to breathe.”

“I really
wish I had enjoyed it more.”

“I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it.”

“I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.”

“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.”

“And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not in the same way. That was all over now. She was really gone.”

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

“So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?”

“He looks at you a lot. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.”

“But the little things are what make up life”

“We didn’t know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”

“I whispered “I’m not,” even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.”

“It wouldn't kill you to get out of your comfort zone a little bit.”