Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Peter doesn’t like mayonnaise. It’s funny the things you pick up in a fake relationship.”

— Jenny Han

202. “Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults.”

— Jenny Han

203. “IT’s a rare thing, to know someone so well, whether they’ll pivot left or right.”

— Jenny Han

204. “So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”

— Jenny Han

205. “You know the saddest part? Josh and I will never be friends like we were before. Not after all this. That part’s just over now. He was my best friend.” I.”

— Jenny Han

206. “Stormy died in her sleep last night. The funeral is in Rhode Island on Wednesday. I just thought you’d want to know.”

— Jenny Han

207. “Music makes everything more romantic, doesn’t it? One second you’re walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it’s like you’re in a movie and you’ve just had your heart brutally broken.”

— Jenny Han

208. “Lara Jean, promise me you won’t let her get her hooks in Daddy. He doesn’t know the first thing about dating in the twenty-first century, and she’ll just eat him alive. He needs to be with someone mature, someone with wisdom in her eyes.” I snort. “Like who? A grandma? If so, I know a few from Belleview I could set him up with.”

— Jenny Han

209. “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

210. “I’m sick of waiting for karma. Karma can suck it.”

— Jenny Han

211. “He smells like pool, and summer, and vacations. It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

213. “Before he goes to the boys’ side and I go to the girls’ side, I kiss him one more time and I feel like I’m flying.”

— Jenny Han

214. “And i’m certain, i’m so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be, that I don’t have to be afraid of good-bye; because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”

— Jenny Han

215. “She’s the kind of person you want to like you. You know she can be cruel; you’ve seen her be cruel. But when her eyes are on you, and she’s paying attention to you, you want it to last. Her beauty is part of it, but there’s something more – something that draws you in. I think it’s her transparency – everything she thinks or feels is written all over her face, and even if it wasn’t, she’d say it anyway, because she says what she thinks, without thinking first.”

— Jenny Han

216. “My second thought was, I’m prettier than her.”

— Jenny Han

217. “I thought Genevieve was someone I would know forever. Those people in your life that you just always know, no matter what. But it’s not that way. Here we are, three years later, and we’re worse than strangers.”

— Jenny Han

218. “Firsts were important.”

— Jenny Han

219. “But I didn’t regret it. I never regretted it, not for one second. 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

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

— Jenny Han

221. “I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.”

— Jenny Han

222. “He groans. “You’ve gotta give me something here, Lara Jean. I have a reputation to uphold. None of my friends will believe I suddenly turned into a monk to date you.”

— Jenny Han

223. “Son las imperfecciones las que hacen las cosas hermosas.”

— Jenny Han

224. “It’s the “too”? that’s the sticking point. The “too”? is what stops me in my tracks. It sticks in my craw. Because if he hadn’t said “too”? it would be about me and him. Not about me and him and Margot.”

— Jenny Han

225. “Don’t let it happen to you, Lara Jean. Don’t get too serious to where things can’t go back. Be in love with Peter if you want, but be careful with your heart. 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

226. “It’s hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.”

— Jenny Han

227. “Because she’s Peter’s girl.”

— Jenny Han

228. “Whatever my girl wants”, Peter Kavinsky.”

— Jenny Han

229. “She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.”

— Jenny Han

230. “You can’t be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.”

— Jenny Han

231. “I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips... Or any other body part.”

— Jenny Han

232. “Triumphantly he says, “Did you predict that, Lara Jean?”

— Jenny Han

233. “He could be wearing a red letterman’s jacket, driving around in a Corvette with the top down, one arm on the steering wheel, on his way to pick up his girl for the sock hop.”

— Jenny Han

234. “With his fair hair and milky skin and rosy cheeks, he looks like he could be an English farmer’s son. But he’s slim, so maybe the sensitive farmer’s son who steals away to the barn to read.”

— Jenny Han

235. “When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he’ll never read it. Because he never will.”

— Jenny Han

236. “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.”

— Jenny Han

237. “I whispered “I’m not,” even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.”

— Jenny Han

238. “It’s kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted, isn’t it?”

— Jenny Han

239. “When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don’t kick him on the ground.”

— Jenny Han

240. “You keep your summer house and your summer boys all to yourself and you don’t want to share anything with me. We finally get to spend a whole summer together and you don’t even care! All you care about is being in Cousins, with them.”

— Jenny Han

241. “Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”

— Jenny Han

242. “Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.”

— Jenny Han

243. “You’ll just do what you did before he was your boyfriend. You’ll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen. All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.”

— Jenny Han

244. “We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing. Does that mean it was never meant to be in the first place? That we were an accident of fate? If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away like that?”

— Jenny Han

245. “I’ll order steak with a baked potato on the side, and for dessert I’ll have a strawberry sundae with whipped cream.”

— Jenny Han

246. “Can you also write down that under no circumstances can either of us tell anyone the truth?” I ask him. “The first rule of Fight Club,” Peter says knowingly. “I’ve never seen that movie.” “Of course you haven’t,” he says, and I make a face at him. Also: mental note, watch Fight Club.”

— Jenny Han

247. “I’m giddy. Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.”

— Jenny Han

248. “I just want it to be fun and light the way it always is with us. I want him to at leas still be my friend. Especially now that we’re at the end.”

— Jenny Han

249. “Yes, of course I know what that means.” I have no idea what that means.”

— Jenny Han

250. “That’s the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.”

— Jenny Han