Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won’t hurt so badly.”

— Jenny Han

52. “Things couldn’t stay the same forever.”

— Jenny Han

53. “Do you think there’s a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

56. “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

57. “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

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

— Jenny Han

59. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

63. “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

64. “Time is the longest distance between two places. – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie.”

— Jenny Han

65. “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

66. “Firsts are special.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

68. “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

69. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s part of the risk.”

— Jenny Han

70. “You can’t judge who you love the most by how long you love them.”

— Jenny Han

71. “It doesn’t matter if I like him or not, because he doesn’t like me back.”

— Jenny Han

72. “I’m standing there in the open door and the thought flies in my head, so quick, so unexpected, I can’t stop myself from thinking it: If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

— Jenny Han

73. “Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.”

— Jenny Han

74. “Everybody had somebody but me.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

79. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

83. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

92. “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

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

— Jenny Han

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

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

— Jenny Han