Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Jenny Han

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

107. “He knows me well enough to know that I just need to burrow in my little hobbit hole for a while, and when I’m ready, I’ll come out again and be all right.”

— Jenny Han

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “He has the look of a Handsome Boy from a different time. He could be a dashing World War I soldier, handsome enough for a girl to wait years for him to come back from war, so handsome she could wait forever.”

— Jenny Han

112. “I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn’t be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough.”

— Jenny Han

113. “I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.”

— Jenny Han

114. “He smiled at me, and that smile – he just gets in. His smile did it every time.”

— Jenny Han

115. “There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”

— Jenny Han

116. “But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”

— Jenny Han

117. “Margot would say she belongs to herself. Kitty would say she belongs to no one. And I guess I would say I belong to my sisters and my dad, but that won’t always be true. 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

118. “Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it’s all part of being in love.”

— Jenny Han

119. “I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was to feel so much grief.”

— Jenny Han

120. “Never say no when you really want to say yes.”

— Jenny Han

121. “This is the moment I realize I don’t love him, that I haven’t for a while. That maybe I never did. Because he’s right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don’t want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

— Jenny Han

122. “I won’t be the reason you don’t go to him. I won’t be your excuse. You’ve got to see for yourself, or you’l never be able to let him go Jeremiah Fisher.”

— Jenny Han

123. “I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.”

— Jenny Han

124. “This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite.”

— Jenny Han

125. “I suppose you can’t hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”

— Jenny Han

126. “My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn’t know it was going to happen like this.”

— Jenny Han

127. “What’s a meet-cute?” Peter’s lying on his side now, his head propped up on his elbow. He looks so adorable I could pinch his cheeks, but I refrain from saying so. His head is big enough as it is. “A meet-cute is when the hero and heroine meet for the very first time, and it’s always in a charming way. It’s how you know they’re going to end up together. The cuter the better.”

— Jenny Han

128. “All night, I talked to other people. I didn’t look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was painfully aware of him. When he was nearby, my body hummed. When he was away, there was this dull ache. With him near, I felt everything.”

— Jenny Han

129. “Here’s something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don’t always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.”

— Jenny Han

130. “Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.”

— Jenny Han

131. “People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”

— Jenny Han

132. “In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

— Jenny Han

133. “My mom adored her. She called Belly her secret daughter. She looked forward to seeing her all year. Steven, even though he gave her a hard time, he was really protective of her. Everyone took care of Belly, she just didn’t know it. She was too busy looking at Conrad.”

— Jenny Han

134. “If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

— Jenny Han

135. “There’s nothing crazier than a Christmas tree all lit up.”

— Jenny Han

136. “Maybe really, really good things aren’t meant to last for too long; maybe that’s what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

— Jenny Han

137. “He gestured at me. “That’s Belly.” “Belly?” she repeated. “Yup. She’s my girlfriend.” I think I choked out loud.”

— Jenny Han

138. “I let out a long sigh. In.”

— Jenny Han

139. “Things feel like they’ll be forever, but they aren’t. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”

— Jenny Han

140. “They’re not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don’t want to be in love anymore. They’re for good-bye. Because after I write my letter, I’m no longer consumed by my all-consuming love.”

— Jenny Han

141. “I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”

— Jenny Han

142. “It snuck up on me – growing up, I mean.”

— Jenny Han

143. “Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?”

— Jenny Han

144. “The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I’d ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.”

— Jenny Han

145. “Go to Jeremiah. He’s the one who wants you,” Conrad said. “I don’t. I never did.”

— Jenny Han

146. “He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. I said it again, one last time, even though i didn’t mean it. “Conrad let go of me.” He did. And then he dunked me. It didn’t matter. I was already holding my breath.”

— Jenny Han

147. “People are gonna disappoint you sometimes. We’re flawed creatures. Not one of us is perfect, not even you, and you’ve gotta let people mess up and then you’ve gotta forgive them. That’s just life.”

— Jenny Han

148. “People come in and out of your life. For a time they’re your world; they are everything. There’s no telling how long you will have them near... It’s the good-byes that are hard.”

— Jenny Han

149. “Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”

— Jenny Han

150. “Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”

— Jenny Han