Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

107. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Jenny Han

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Jenny Han

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

133. “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

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

— Jenny Han

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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. A year ago I could not have imagined that Josh would no longer be a constant for me. I couldn’t have conceived of how hard it would be to not see Margot every day, how lost I would feel without her – or how easily Josh could slip away, without me even realizing. It’s the good-byes that are hard.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

141. “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

142. “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

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

— Jenny Han

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Jenny Han

148. “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

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

— Jenny Han

150. “I could fall in love with you so easily. I’m halfway there already. You’re so perfect in my memory, and you’re perfect now. It’s like I dreamed you into being. Of all the boys, you’re the one I would pick.”

— Jenny Han