Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Haven admits. “Like, how did you get him? No offense. I just thought you were the non-dating type.” I frown. The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?”

— Jenny Han

452. “Love is about making brave choices every day.”

— Jenny Han

453. “As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say “Go play outside” to you anymore to you.”

— Jenny Han

454. “I just wouldn’t want it to be less special, after we do it. I want it to always be a sacred thing, not something to take for granted because everybody else does it, or because we’ve done it before. I suppose anything can become ordinary or commonplace if you do it enough times, but my hope is that this never is. Not for us.”

— Jenny Han

455. “No, I’m gonna get it. Just give me a second. I’m gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French. – He winks at me.”

— Jenny Han

456. “It’s such a normal thing to be discussing on a Thursday evening, but I feel so strange, because it’s as if the earth is shifting beneath my feet, and the ground isn’t steady anymore, but everyone around me is talking about food.”

— Jenny Han

457. “We’re on an adventure, she yells. We don’t need cell phones for an adventure.”

— Jenny Han

458. “Not for good. Just for now.”

— Jenny Han

459. “At dinner Trina and Margot are cordial to each other, as if nothing happened. Which, in some ways, is worse than a fight. At least when you’re in a fight, you’re in it with someone.”

— Jenny Han

460. “All of this love crap makes me want to puke.”

— Jenny Han

461. “Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.”

— Jenny Han

462. “It was turning it into a secret that gave it power.”

— Jenny Han

463. “A good scrapbook has texture. It’s thick and chunky and doesn’t close all the way.”

— Jenny Han

464. “All right, then we’ll wait. Whatever my girl wants.”

— Jenny Han

465. “Peter never met a compliment he didn’t smile at.”

— Jenny Han

466. “In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”

— Jenny Han

467. “I’m not what? As pretty as Genevieve?”

— Jenny Han

468. “My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won’t do any more than I want to do.”

— Jenny Han

469. “And just like that, our little family grows bigger.”

— Jenny Han

470. “In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened earlier, and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.”

— Jenny Han

471. “I don’t want to have to play catch-up at the end of the day. I need to be a part of his daily life and he needs to be a part of mine.”

— Jenny Han

472. “Curling your hair is an intrinsically hopeful act.”

— Jenny Han

473. “I felt like I had won the lottery from that one smile.”

— Jenny Han

474. “Growing up really is bittersweet.”

— Jenny Han

475. “When I’m old and gray, I will look back on this night, and I will remember it just as it was. Is. We’re still here. It’s not the future yet.”

— Jenny Han

476. “Let’s take a selfie. We can’t, our phones are dead, remember? We’ll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.”

— Jenny Han

477. “Dutifully I knock on the table. “What does knock on wood even mean?” Daddy perks up. “Actually, it’s thought to come from Greek mythology. According to Greek myths, dryads lived in trees, and people would invoke them for protection. Hence knocking on wood: just that added bit of protection so as not to tempt fate.”

— Jenny Han

478. “It’s funny how much of who we are as babies is who we are as we get older.”

— Jenny Han

479. “Kitty used to hoard raisins; she was probably the most regular kid in kindergarten.”

— Jenny Han

480. “The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.”

— Jenny Han

481. “Her mind can’t go to the dark places mine does.”

— Jenny Han

482. “At college, when people ask us how we met... I suppose I’ll say it all started with a love letter.”

— Jenny Han

483. “It’s crazy, how similar we are. Here’s both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.”

— Jenny Han

484. “The Cheese Shop is a specialty food store right by campus, and they sell cheese, obviously, but also fancy jams and bread and wine and gourmet pastas. They make really great roast beef sandwiches with a house dressing – a mayonnaisey mustard that I have tried to duplicate at home, but nothing tastes as good as in the shop, on their fresh bread.”

— Jenny Han

485. “The day after graduation, the senior class packs up and goes to Nags Head for a week. Never in a million years did I think I would be going. For one thing, you have to gather up enough friends to rent a house together – like ten friends!”

— Jenny Han

486. “It’s not fair for the girl. Guys have it easy. I’m sure they were all congratulating him, pounding him on the back for being such a stud.”

— Jenny Han

487. “He deserves background music, he looks so good.”

— Jenny Han

488. “I lean over to him and put my palms on his smooth cheeks. “That’s how I know you’re still a boy. Because you’re so sure.” He.”

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489. “The vote was between New York City and Disney World, and New York won.”

— Jenny Han

490. “It’s the good-byes that are hard.”

— Jenny Han

491. “She hot-potatoes the phone to me.”

— Jenny Han

492. “Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I’m just going to say dumb stuff with it?”

— Jenny Han

493. “She laughs. “Except you, Lara Jean. You’re still itty-bitty pocket-sized.” She says it sweetly. Like sweetened condensed milk. Sweet and condescending. Poured on super thick. I.”

— Jenny Han

494. “I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.”

— Jenny Han

495. “The distance came slowly, like seawater filling up a boat, without us even realizing it. Before you know it you’re underwater.”

— Jenny Han

496. “He doesn’t know it, but when Peter talks about Genevieve, he gets a certain softness in his face. It’s tenderness mixed with impatience. And something else. Love. Peter can protest all he wants, but I know he still loves her.”

— Jenny Han

497. “It’s torturous standing there in front of him, waiting – for what, I don’t know.”

— Jenny Han

498. “The perfect chocolate chip cookie should have three rings. The center should be soft and a little gooey. The middle ring should be chewy. And the outer ring should be crispy” -Lara Jean.”

— Jenny Han

499. “Is your dad home? I’ll ask him.”

— Jenny Han

500. “And grumbling, he does it, in front of everybody, which is how I know he is utterly and completely mine.”

— Jenny Han