Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

158. “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

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

— Jenny Han

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Jenny Han

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Jenny Han

167. “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

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

— Jenny Han

169. “Even paradise can be suffocating.”

— Jenny Han

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

175. “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

176. “But the really special thing I’ve included is my letter, the one I wrote to him so long ago, the one that brought us together. I wanted to keep it, but something felt right about Peter having it. 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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Jenny Han

185. “That’s life. Things don’t always work out.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

188. “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

189. “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

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

— Jenny Han

191. “I will never forget tonight, not for as long as I live. One day, if I’m lucky, I’ll tell some young girl all my stories, just like Stormy told me hers. And I’ll get to live them again. When I’m old and gray, I will look back on this night, and I will remember it just as it was. Is. We’re still here. It’s not the future yet.”

— Jenny Han

192. “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

193. “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

194. “And now I just want to not exist.”

— Jenny Han

195. “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

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

— Jenny Han

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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