Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2025 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. “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

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

— Jenny Han

205. “Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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. “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

221. “Firsts were important.”

— Jenny Han

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Jenny Han

226. “If two people are meant to be, they’ll find their way to each other.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

228. “I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either.” John looks over at me, his gaze steady. “But one day maybe it will be.”

— Jenny Han

229. “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

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

— Jenny Han

231. “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

232. “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

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

— Jenny Han

234. “Because she’s Peter’s girl.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

236. “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

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

— Jenny Han

238. “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

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

— Jenny Han

240. “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

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

— Jenny Han

242. “Heed my advice, Lara Jean. Never say no when you really want to say yes.”

— Jenny Han

243. “So much of love is chance. There’s something scary and wonderful about that.”

— Jenny Han

244. “I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”

— Jenny Han

245. “It’s like we’re in a movie and the music is swelling and waves are crashing around us.”

— Jenny Han

246. “For the briefest of moments his eyes search mine, and I know he’s looking for reassurance. That’s when I put my arms around him and hug him tight to me, tight enough that he knows I’m here; I won’t let go.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

248. “We were never a thing, not really, but we almost were, and to me, that’s something.”

— Jenny Han

249. “There’s an openness to his face, an innocence – a certain kind of niceness. It’s the niceness that touches my heart the most.”

— Jenny Han

250. “It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants. Even when I liked a boy so much, loved him even, I would always rather be with my sisters, because that’s where I belong.”

— Jenny Han