Top 100 Jenny Han Quotes
#1. Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy. I
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#2. Curling your hair is an intrinsically hopeful act.
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#3. 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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#4. You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J
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#5. 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.
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#6. But still I hope, because I can't help but hope. *
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#7. But then I see the way he is looking at me, with such tenderness, and I stop.
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#8. A slow-motion train wreck. For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment.
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#9. I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.
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#10. We can still talk to each other," I say. "Nothing's changed." That's the biggest lie I've ever told him, even bigger than the lie about my so-called dead twin Marcella. Until a couple of years ago Josh thought I had a twin sister named Marcella who died of leukemia.
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#11. Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.
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#12. 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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#13. 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.
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#14. The only person I wanted was Susannah. She was the only one.
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#15. So maybe she's got a little bit of me in her after all.
Kitty continues. "We could put red food coloring in the syrup, too, to make it look like blood. A bloody heart!"
No, never mind. Kitty is all her own.
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#16. 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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#17. All night, I talked to other people. I didn't look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was painfully aware of him. When he was nearby, my body hummed. When he was away, there was this dull ache. With him near, I felt everything.
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#18. It's kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted, isn't it?
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#19. I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me.
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#20. 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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#21. We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone.
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#22. I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice
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#23. Life is long if you let it be.
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#24. It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.
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#25. I had been lying to myself, 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. - Belly Conklin
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#26. 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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#27. Never read the comments, Covey! That's the first rule of-"
"If you say 'Fight Club' to me right now, I will hang up on you.
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#28. I loved him in a way you can really on do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to - it's dizzy and foolish and fierce.
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#29. Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog.
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#30. I punched my hand through the water. I wanted to kick his ass. 'This is between me and Belly.' Smug piece of shit. - Conrad Fisher
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#31. You're not my best friend. You're my sister, and that's more.
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#33. 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
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#34. Anyone looking at her would think she was fine. Because Margot is always fine, even when she's not.
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#35. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.
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#36. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.
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#37. I turn on my side and close my eyes. What must it be like, to have a boy like you so much he cries for you? And not just any boy. Josh. Our Josh.
To answer her question: yes, I think I have been in real love. Just once, though. With Josh. Our Josh.
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#38. Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought,Come back. Be the you I love and remember
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#39. You keep your summer house and your summer boys all to yourself and you don't want to share anything with me. We finally get to spend a whole summer together and you don't even care! All you care about is being in Cousins, with them.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Smiling, he said, Did you know that astronomers call them interplanetary dust?
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#42. You know the saddest part? Josh and I will never be friends like we were before. Not after all this. That part's just over now. He was my best friend." I
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#43. If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.
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#44. If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.
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#45. Peter and I were hanging out and he told me about what you guys were doing today.
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#46. Was i on five or six? "Peter! You made me lose my count again!" "I have that effect on women." I roll my eyyes at him and he grins back at me, but before he can say anything else, I yell," Kitty! Get down here!
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#47. Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.
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#48. It was like coming home after you'd been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.
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#49. Reeve shakes his head and exhales loudly. "That's not what I'm saying and you know it!" He looks away. "Can you just ... can you go get dressed and come with me and we'll talk about it later? My mom's expecting you.
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#50. This is the moment I realize I don't love him, that I haven't for a while. That maybe I never did. Because he's right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else.
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#51. You know what? Don't even worry about it," I said. "Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind."
"Who the hell is Corky Wheeler?
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#52. It doesn't matter if I like him or not, because he doesn't like me back.
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#53. To feel so known, so understood. It's such a wonderful feeling.
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#54. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go
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#55. 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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#56. Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you're the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You're the one people whisper about. I've seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!
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#57. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. I knew that now- that love wasn't something you could erase, no matter how hard you tired.
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#58. Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful library.
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#59. Heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break.
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#60. Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.
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#61. 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.
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#62. But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean
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#63. 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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#64. I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.
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#65. I know most sisters don't get along, but I'm closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world. How can we be the Song girls without Margot?
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say "Go play outside" to you anymore to you.
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#69. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.
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#70. 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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#71. So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, You have to take good care of this, because it's yours.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Although I'm tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night's rest, I can't bring myself to fall asleep. It's like I've forgotten how.
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#74. It snuck up on me - growing up, I mean.
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#75. Ever since I got your letter . . . I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.
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#76. So what would you have asked for if you won?"
He doesn't hesitate even one beat. "Your peanut butter chocolate cake with my name written in Reese's Pieces.
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#77. It might not have been him. But it doesn't matter, Lara Jean, because even if he didn't encourage all the talk, I doubt he discouraged it, if you know what I'm saying.
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#78. They had such a good meet-cute," I croak.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I'm lying on a planet. It's so wide. So infinite
-Belly Conklin
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#81. 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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#82. I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.
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#83. I don't want to be a girl who gets her heart broken, but I also don't really want to break boys' hearts.
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#84. That I miss her. I really miss her. She's only been gone for two months, but it feels like longer. And it also feels like it just happened, like yesterday.
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#85. Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.
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#86. What I really want to say is Peter will always pick Lara Jean over Genevieve.
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#87. Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.
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#88. Peter. Peter Kavinsky. Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.
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#89. This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat
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#90. It's a known fact in life that you can't have everything
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#91. 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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#92. I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again.
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#93. How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?
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#94. I don't like taking my eyes away from what's happening right in front of me, not for a second.
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#95. I am wearing an old yellow sundress of Celia's, and I have tied my hair back with green ribbon. I think I look real nice. And all they see is the cake.
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#96. How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.
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#97. 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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#98. It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.
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#99. But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn't for me.
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#100. Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely.
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