Quotes from book

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

“I hate change more than almost anything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But the little things are what make up life”

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

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

“Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“It was at that exact moment that I saw Peter walking down the hall toward me. He looked so good. He deserved his own background music.”

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

“It’s fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It’s like, I thought this door was closed before, but here it is open just the tiniest crack. What if?”

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

“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”

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

“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.”