Jenny Han Quotes

“I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.”

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Book:It's Not Summer Without You

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.”

Love Broken Ya Contemporary Jenny Han Yalit It S Not Summer Without You Summer Series

Book:It's Not Summer Without You

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“Catching him off guard felt like a good sign. He had a million walls. Maybe if I just started talking, he wouldn't have time to build up a new one.”

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“The old pull, the tide drawing me back in. I kept getting caught in this current—first love, I mean. First love kept making me come back to this, to him. He still took my breath away, just being near him. I had been lying to myself the night before, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go.”

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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“It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.”

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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“It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.”

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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.”

“Nothing good happens after two a.m. Unless you happen to be a fan of watching people play flip cup for hours on end. Not me. No, I’d much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“But then I think, no, I wouldn’t give up twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen with Peter for the world.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Lara Jean and Peter's amended contract *Peter will write a letter to Lara Jean once a week. A real handwritten letter, not an e-mail. *Lara Jean will call Peter once a day. Preferably the last call of the night, befero she goes to bed. *Lara Jean will put up a picture of Peter's choosing on her wall. *Peter will keep the scrapbook out on his desk so any interested parties will see tha he is taken. *Peter and Lara Jean will always tell each other te truth, even when it's hard. *Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I’d much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“And that's when I start to cry again, because that's when it finally feels real.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I know you were hoping to go to UVA, but this might be for the best anyway.”

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I don't want to forget any of this. The way he's looking at me at this very moment.”

Author:Jenny Han

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

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

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Book:Fire with Fire

Source: Fire with Fire

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

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Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I cannot believe that John Ambrose McClaren read that letter. I didn't remember it to be so...naked. With so much...yearning. God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?”

“I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“What would that have felt like, to have a boy do something like that for me? In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe. But this is new. Or old. Old and new, because it's the first time I'm hearing it.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Why am I the one making all these concessions, pretending to be okay with something I'm not actually okay with?”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away just like that? I guess the answer is, we weren't.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“It's all so very high school. By that I mean it's ephemeral. Even this pain will be fleeting, finite.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“All I know is that every minute without him feels interminably long, like I'm waiting, just waiting for him to come back to me.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“...but my heart doesn't seem to understand it's over.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so...familiar to me. And now he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Barely is enough for now.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love 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.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“There’s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak, Lara Jean. That’s just a part of life.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“It can be tough with best friendships. You’re both growing and changing, and it’s hard to grow and change at the same rate.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Why can’t things just stay the same as before? Then nothing would ever change and you wouldn’t grow up; you would have stayed nine forever and never have turned ten. She wipes her nose with the back of her arm. “I might not mind that.” Then you’d never get to drive, or go to college, or buy a house and adopt a bunch of dogs. I know you want to do all that stuff. You have an adventurous spirit, and being a kid can get in the way of that, because you have to get other people’s permission. When you’re older, you can do what you want and you won’t have to ask anybody.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“The thought of her getting older, outgrowing her toys, her art set…it makes me feel a bit melancholy. Growing up really is bittersweet.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“What’s the fun in anything if there aren’t a few roadblocks to spice things up?”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I don’t know why I’m sitting here trying to give you advice. I’m a single divorcee and I’m forty. Two. Forty-two. What do I know about anything? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“That’s a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I’ve never seen a man so devoted to his family. You three are the pearls in his crown, you know? And that’s how it should be. A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I don’t think a girl ever gets over losing her mom. I’m an adult and it’s completely normal and expected for my mom to be dead, but I still feel orphaned sometimes.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Sure, you could go to the bakery and pick out the exact cake you want, but there is a thrill in not being sure what you’ll end up with.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Still, it’s a nice day, uneventful in its niceness.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I’ve barely thought about this place, and now that it’s disappearing, I’m sad. It’s like all childhood toys, I suppose. It doesn’t become important until you don’t have it anymore.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I turn to go. I was so hopeful this morning, I had such stars in my eyes imagining how this was all going to go. God, what a jerk Peter is. Good riddance to him!”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I feel like a purse bulging with gold coins. I can't wait to spill.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“The whole reason I broke up with him was so I wouldn't be that girl crying over her boyfriend, and now that's exactly what I am. It's pathetic.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Don't get too serious to where things can't go back.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“...maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Also, it's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I do not know that jealous insecurity is a real turnoff.”

Book:P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You