Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Things couldn’t stay the same forever.”

— Jenny Han

52. “Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

— Jenny Han

53. “And in the end, he would become a memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.”

— Jenny Han

54. “My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there’s a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.”

— Jenny Han

55. “You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.”

— Jenny Han

56. “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.”

— Jenny Han

57. “Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”

— Jenny Han

58. “It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

— Jenny Han

59. “I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either. But one day maybe it will be.”

— Jenny Han

60. “Firsts are special.”

— Jenny Han

61. “How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there’s just no figuring out today?”

— Jenny Han

62. “A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man’s life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?”

— Jenny Han

63. “How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”

— Jenny Han

64. “The hum of a memory, blurry around the edges, soft and nothing particularly special, all kind of blending into one moment.”

— Jenny Han

65. “It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours.”

— Jenny Han

66. “It’s a whole new world out there, Daddy.” “Right.”

— Jenny Han

67. “It’s scary how easy promises were broken.”

— Jenny Han

68. “I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. – Conrad.”

— Jenny Han

69. “For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

— Jenny Han

70. “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

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

— Jenny Han

72. “It’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

— Jenny Han

73. “I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that – gone.”

— Jenny Han

74. “If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

— Jenny Han

75. “I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn’t get to come back again. You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”

— Jenny Han

76. “When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit.”

— Jenny Han

77. “I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”

— Jenny Han

78. “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

79. “Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.”

— Jenny Han

80. “You only like guys you don’t have a chance with, because you’re scared.”

— Jenny Han

81. “I guess that’s part of growing up, too – saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”

— Jenny Han

82. “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.”

— Jenny Han

83. “There is a specific kind of fight you can only have with your sister. It’s the kind where you say things you can’t take back. You say them because you can’t help but say them, because you’re so angry it’s coming up your throat and out your eyes; you’re so angry you can’t see straight. All you see is blood.”

— Jenny Han

84. “I didn’t want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

— Jenny Han

85. “But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they’d been there all along. All that time. I had to face it. He was part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.”

— Jenny Han

86. “Do you think there’s a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to, I mean?” “Sure. One implies choice; the other doesn’t.”

— Jenny Han

87. “A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

— Jenny Han

88. “Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”

— Jenny Han

89. “I wished for Conrad on every birthday, every shooting star, every lost eyelash, every penny in a fountain was dedicated to the one I loved.”

— Jenny Han

90. “I hated to leave her and I hated to be near her, because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

— Jenny Han

91. “I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

— Jenny Han

92. “I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.”

— Jenny Han

93. “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.”

— Jenny Han

94. “I didn’t want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn’t want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

— Jenny Han

95. “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.”

— Jenny Han

96. “How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.”

— Jenny Han

97. “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

98. “The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.”

— Jenny Han

99. “I stared at him. Did he really 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

100. “Look who’s here. My adoring girlfriend.”

— Jenny Han