“Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.”

—  Jenny Han

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how…" by Jenny Han?
Jenny Han photo
Jenny Han226
American writer 1980

Related quotes

Miranda July photo

“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Ruth Ozeki photo

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Full Moon

David Levithan photo

“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Stig Dagerman photo

“They talked quietly, lying on their backs and letting the words float up to the ceiling as though they were talking to themselves. By reason of their calmness they could tell each other everything without shame, without its sounding like a confession. Nor were they surprised at what they found out about each other.”

Stig Dagerman book A Burnt Child

Source: A Burnt Child (1948), p. 191

Gabriele Münter photo

“Each of us [the Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) artists] was interested in the work of the other members of our group, much as each of us was also interested in the health and happiness of the others. But we were still far from considering ourselves as a group or a school of art... I don't think we were ever as programmatic in out theories, as competitive or a self-assertive, as some of the modern [art] schools of Paris.”

Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) German painter

Source: Interview by Edouard Roditi (1958), p. 117

“How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Gillian Flynn photo

“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Jerry Spinelli photo

“As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Related topics