Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.”

— Jenny Han

2. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that’s how all this got started. and that’s how it’s going to end.”

— Jenny Han

3. “I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”

— Jenny Han

4. “The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”

— Jenny Han

5. “You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”

— Jenny Han

6. “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

7. “Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”

— Jenny Han

8. “Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”

— Jenny Han

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9. “I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”

— Jenny Han

10. “I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don’t do it now, I never will.”

— Jenny Han

11. “It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful.”

— Jenny Han

12. “It’s always the quiet ones that are the most interesting.”

— Jenny Han

13. “I didn’t fall for you, you tripped me!”

— Jenny Han

14. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”

— Jenny Han

15. “I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

— Jenny Han

16. “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.”

— Jenny Han

17. “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.”

— Jenny Han

18. “Life doesn’t have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”

— Jenny Han

19. “But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”

— Jenny Han

20. “There’s no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it’s hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

— Jenny Han

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21. “Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can’t explain it.”

— Jenny Han

22. “We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”

— Jenny Han

23. “I hate change more than almost anything.”

— Jenny Han

24. “So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

26. “To have it all, you have to risk it all.”

— Jenny Han

27. “He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity -Belly Conklin-.”

— Jenny Han

28. “She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She’d known me my whole life. It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”

— Jenny Han

29. “When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

— Jenny Han

30. “I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

— Jenny Han

31. “You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.”

— Jenny Han

32. “It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”

— Jenny Han

33. “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”

— Jenny Han

34. “You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J.”

— Jenny Han

35. “I loved him in a way that you can really only 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. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.”

— Jenny Han

36. “But the little things are what make up life.”

— Jenny Han

37. “There are moments in every girl’s life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn’t even see it coming. I had no idea.”

— Jenny Han

38. “When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”

— Jenny Han

39. “And now she’s off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.”

— Jenny Han

40. “Don’t say no when you want to say yes.”

— Jenny Han

41. “Nothing is guaranteed.”

— Jenny Han

42. “And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right-now me, and he loved me anyway.”

— Jenny Han

43. “Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach.”

— Jenny Han

44. “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.”

— Jenny Han

45. “Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.”

— Jenny Han

46. “It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”

— Jenny Han

47. “When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.”

— Jenny Han

48. “If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.”

— Jenny Han

49. “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

50. “People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”

— Jenny Han