Top 100 Jenny Han Quotes
#1. This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat
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#2. It snuck up on me - growing up, I mean.
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#3. I won't be the reason you don't go to him. I won't be your excuse. You've got to see for yourself, or you'l never be able to let him go
Jeremiah Fisher
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#4. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.
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#5. I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.
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#6. I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
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#7. I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.
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#8. But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean
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#9. Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.
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#10. Heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break.
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#11. To picture him, sitting at his desk at home, scribbling away with a pen and paper, endears him to me so completely. It gives me shivers. Currents of electricity from my scalp down to my toes.
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#12. Nothing like high school. It's a lot of pressure. And . . . I didn't think you'd be so far away." I
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#13. He could be wearing a red letterman's jacket, driving around in a Corvette with the top down, one arm on the steering wheel, on his way to pick up his girl for the sock hop.
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#14. I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend.
It has to end here. Now.
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#15. We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone.
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#16. My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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 I want a boy to fall in love with me back.
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#19. There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.
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#20. Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.
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#21. If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.
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#22. Smiling, he said, Did you know that astronomers call them interplanetary dust?
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#23. Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to be able to let him go. It was as simple and as hard as that. I had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn't cut away. It was my own fault, really. I couldn't let go of Conrad.
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#24. Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought,Come back. Be the you I love and remember
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#25. Christmas isn't Christmas without your white-chocolate cranberry cookies
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#26. You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.
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#27. I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.
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#28. But then maybe i don't want to know. Maybe it;s nicer not knowing.
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#29. It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
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#30. I don't think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips ... Or any other body part.
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#31. Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.
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#32. What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness? I
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#33. So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?
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#34. He took a step closer. "I don't know if I'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have this ... feeling. That you'll always be there. Here." Conrad clawed at his heart and then dropped his hand.
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#35. She told me to try not to go to college with a boyfriend. She said she didnt want me to be the girl crying on the phone with her boyfriend and saying no to things instead of yes
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#36. The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?
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#37. I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.
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#39. There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.
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#41. The only kind of calls you get this early in the morning are the bad ones.
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#42. Reevie ... I feel wasted." Her head sways from side to side, her hair hanging in her face. "Will you please take me home?"
I peer at her. She's had, like, two beers. I've seen her finish a six-pack in under an hour and not get tipsy.
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#43. I felt it a week before we left, every time. And then of course, when the time came, I was never ready to leave. I wanted to stay forever.
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#44. I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake.
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#45. It's funny how much of your childhood is about proximity.
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#46. His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound f water when it pulls off sand.
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#47. He's being sarcastic. I hate when people are sarcastic. It's so cheap.
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#48. and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.
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#49. I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we'd have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I'll remember my whole life.
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#50. People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.
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#51. It's not all of a sudden," he said, his eyes locked on mine. "It's always.
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#52. If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms
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#53. Maybe I wasn't worth remembering.
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#54. Slowly, deliberately, she says, "The winner gets a wish." "From who?" Trevor asks. "Everybody?" "From any one of us who are playing." "Wait
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#56. One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It's the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When
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#57. Relationships are incredibly amorphous. They could get back together. They could stay friends. Who's to say what will happen in the future?
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#58. How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.
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#59. I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.
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#60. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
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#61. I really
wish I had enjoyed it more.
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#62. Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important.
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#63. I hate change more than almost anything.
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#64. It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.
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#65. Please, Peter. I know her well and so do you. Well, I did know her well. But I don't think people change at the core. They are who they are.
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#66. Wanna hear something funny?"
"What?"
"I think I started liking you.
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#67. That's life. Things don't always work out.
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#68. He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.
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#69. 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.
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#70. One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken." Margot
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#71. Peter is loyal to her first, me second. It's first Genevieve, then me. That is the deal. That's always been the deal. And I'm sick of it.
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#72. I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.
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#73. And now I just want to not exist.
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#74. I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.
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#75. What's this new shampoo you're wearing?"
"I stole it from Margot. It's juicy pear. Nice, right?"
"It's all right, I guess. But can you go back to the one you used to wear? The coconut one? I love the smell of that one." A dreamy look crosses his face, like evening fog settling over a city.
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#76. I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.
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#77. You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.
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#78. Is this how people lose touch? I didn't think that could happen with sisters. Maybe with other people, but never us.
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#79. 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.
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#80. It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it's like the last four years never happened, and I'm feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then.
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#81. This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite.
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#82. I like him in sweaters. I get the urge to cuddle and pet him like a stuffed animal.
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#83. One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.
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#84. She went as a "formal apology": she wore a floor-length evening gown we found at Goodwill for ten dollars, and she had a sign around her neck, written in calligraphy, which said, I'm sorry.
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#85. Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.
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#86. I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
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#87. 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.
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#88. Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.
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#89. I'd nursed a crush on Conrad for whole school years. I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me. If Conrad was mine, there was no way I'd break up with him over a summer-or a school year, for that matter.
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#90. Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way?
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#91. Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.
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#92. My mom adored her. She called Belly her secret daughter. She looked forward to seeing her all year. Steven, even though he gave her a hard time, he was really protective of her. Everyone took care of Belly, she just didn't know it. She was too busy looking at Conrad.
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#93. So I guess it's okay with you if I smoke up too?" says Steven.
"If you get breast cancer
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#94. If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.
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#95. Not the kind of girl to break up and get back together on a whim; once she's decided something, that's it. There's no waffling, no regrets. It's like she said: when she's done, she's just done.
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#96. He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. I said it again, one last time, even though i didn't mean it.
"Conrad let go of me."
He did. And then he dunked me. It didn't matter. I was already holding my breath.
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#97. Laurel was no bullshit. She didn't say things she didn't mean.
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#98. There have been other girls. But they weren't her.
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#99. I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.
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#100. Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
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