Jenny Han Summer Quotes

#1. Despite the ever-increasing responsibilities, there are no promotions in motherhood. You'll never get an annual review followed by a fat bonus and a healthy raise.

Lela Davidson

#2. Everybody had somebody but me.

Jenny Han

#3. No." Leo grinned reminiscently. "Tom was the most lawless man I ever knew. He always said he never let a friend
down - "
"But sometimes people didn't know they weren't friends any more until it was too late.

K.J. Charles

#4. The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

Daniel Mainwaring

#5. 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.

Jenny Han

#6. I love Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my whole life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's

Jenny Han

#7. Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer.

Jenny Han

#8. For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.

Jenny Han

#9. The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Clifton Fadiman

#10. It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it'd be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.

Jenny Han

#11. After she left, after that summer, things were the same and they weren't. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd know me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away part of yourself.

Jenny Han

#12. They seem to have noticed her for the first time

Jenny Han

#13. Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.

Jenny Han

#14. 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.

Jenny Han

#15. Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Robert Frost

#16. The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julia Ward Howe

#17. There have been other girls. But they weren't her.

Jenny Han

#18. Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

Sunday Adelaja

#19. One false move and he'd be a vegetable...

Hiromu Arakawa

#20. Sometimes when our lives are out of control, the only thing that makes us feel secure is to swing in the opposite direction. To control every last detail.

Elle Casey

#21. 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.

Jenny Han

#22. 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.

Jenny Han

#23. 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.

Jenny Han

#24. Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought,Come back. Be the you I love and remember

Jenny Han

#25. I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.

Jenny Han

#26. Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

Muhammad Ali

#27. It's the imperfections that make things beautiful

Jenny Han

#28. Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

John Adams

#29. The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#30. I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Iris Murdoch

#31. As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.

Anais Nin

#32. 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.

Jenny Han

#33. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

Jenny Han

#34. When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.

Tilda Swinton

#35. In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we'd always come back. It's scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that.

Jenny Han