Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.”

— Jenny Han

154. “I’d nursed a crush on Conrad for whole school years. I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me. If Conrad was mine, there was no way I’d break up with him over a summer-or a school year, for that matter.”

— Jenny Han

155. “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

156. “She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”

— Jenny Han

157. “Disappointment is good for kids; it prepares them for the real world, where it’s not all about them and their feelings.”

— Jenny Han

158. “Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.”

— Jenny Han

159. “Even paradise can be suffocating.”

— Jenny Han

160. “I still don’t think it’s pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you’re sad.”

— Jenny Han

161. “You can’t protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it’s all a part of being in love.”

— Jenny Han

162. “One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When.”

— Jenny Han

163. “She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don’t, they’ll fester.”

— Jenny Han

164. “Susannah continued. “If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don’t want to look like I’ve been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.”

— Jenny Han

165. “Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we’re like strangers. I’ll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.” I feel a pinch in my heart. When she says it that way, it’s so sad. “You could become friends again, after some time has passed.” But it wouldn’t be the same, I know that. You’d always be mourning.”

— Jenny Han

166. “The old pull, the tide drawing me back in. I kept getting caught in this current – first love, I mean. First love kept making me come back to this, to him. He still took my breath away, just being near him. I had been lying to myself the night before, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn’t matter what he said or did, I’d never let him go. I.”

— Jenny Han

167. “I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”

— Jenny Han

168. “I go wherever you go,? he says, launching us into the water. This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved.”

— Jenny Han

169. “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.” “Like in Terminator, when Reese saves Sarah Connor from the Terminator and he says, ‘Come with me if you want to live.’ Freaking amazing line.”

— Jenny Han

170. “I didn’t have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.”

— Jenny Han

171. “But still I hope, because I can’t help but hope.”

— Jenny Han

172. “Maybe this is why Mommy told Margot not to go to college with a boyfriend. When you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, you only want to be with that person, and you forget about everybody else, and then when the two of you break up, you’ve lost all your friends. They were off doing fun stuff without you.”

— Jenny Han

173. “What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn’t want to leave? What then? But wouldn’t it be great if I loved it? Isn’t that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness? I.”

— Jenny Han

174. “Conrad calling me again – that was enough to make me forget how to breathe.”

— Jenny Han

175. “It’s funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are.”

— Jenny Han

176. “I put my freezing hands on his cheeks and instead of pushing them away, he said, “Ahh, feels good.” I laughed and said, “That’s because you’re coldhearted.” He put my hands in his coat pockets and said in a voice so soft I wondered if I heard him right, “For everyone else, maybe. But not for you.”

— Jenny Han

177. “You only like guys you don’t have a shot with, because you’re scared. What are you so scared of?”

— Jenny Han

178. “It might be my imagination, but I think I hear his heart beating. His is beating and mine feels like it’s breaking.”

— Jenny Han

179. “There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.”

— Jenny Han

180. “Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.”

— Jenny Han

181. “I don’t want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want... life to start happening. I want to fall in love and want a boy to fall in love with me back -Lara Jean.”

— Jenny Han

182. “Fighting isn’t a good sign, Lara Jean. It means you still care.”

— Jenny Han

183. “Josh, you break my heart. And you’re a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don’t love me.”

— Jenny Han

184. “That’s when I see him. Peter Kavinsky, walking down the hallway. Like magic. Beautiful, dark-haired Peter. He deserves background music, he looks so good.”

— Jenny Han

185. “When something that terrible, that horrible happens to you, you don’t want to talk about it with anyone. You want to bury it deep inside you and let it rest in peace. You want to forget it ever happened.”

— Jenny Han

186. “She’d known me my whole life. It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.”

— Jenny Han

187. “There’s making do, living a pleasant life, no big ups or downs, and there’s all the friction and fire that come with being in love with someone.”

— Jenny Han

188. “We never did see a shooting star, but it didn’t matter to me one bit. Before the night was over I said, this is one of my top moments. He said mine too.”

— Jenny Han

189. “Like snow globes, you shake them up, and for a moment everything is upside down and glitter everywhere and it’s just like magic – but then it all settles and goes back to where it’s supposed to be.”

— Jenny Han

190. “I like to save things. Not important things like whales or people or the environment. Silly things. Porcelain bells, the kind you get at souvenir shops. Cookie cutters you’ll never use, because who needs a cookie in the shape of a foot? Ribbons for my hair. Love letters. Of all the things I save, I guess you could say my love letters are my most prized possession.”

— Jenny Han

191. “There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

— Jenny Han

192. “Slowly, deliberately, she says, “The winner gets a wish.” “From who?” Trevor asks. “Everybody?” “From any one of us who are playing.” “Wait.”

— Jenny Han

193. “I could survive for months, years, on a crush.”

— Jenny Han

194. “I’m an all-or-nothing kind of girl when it comes to weather, I’d much rather it all melt away or have feet and feet of snow, so deep your knees sink in.”

— Jenny Han

195. “Sometimes I wish we’d met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But.”

— Jenny Han

196. “The first time I saw him again, it was another year, at my college graduation. And I just knew.”

— Jenny Han

197. “But you’re the most special to me, because you’re the girl I love, Lara Jean.”

— Jenny Han

198. “I suppose I’ll say it all started with a love letter.”

— Jenny Han

199. “So for that split second I thought he was going to say my name. But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn’t for me” – Lara Jean.”

— Jenny Han

200. “Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.”

— Jenny Han