Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You can’t put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren’t.”

— Jenny Han

252. “You’ll just do what you did before he was your boyfriend,” Alicia says. “You’ll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen.” She reaches out, touches her papery hand to my cheek. A smile plays at her lips. “All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.”

— Jenny Han

253. “Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”

— Jenny Han

254. “You’re the milk to my shake.”

— Jenny Han

255. “This is what Margot was talking about, this double standard. 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

256. “This is our story.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

260. “Anyone looking at her would think she was fine. Because Margot is always fine, even when she’s not.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

263. “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

264. “You can chalk up things to coincide so many times before you have to face the truth.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

266. “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

267. “Because she’s Peter’s girl.”

— Jenny Han

268. “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

269. “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

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

— Jenny Han

271. “Sometimes I like you so much I can’t stand it. It fills up inside me, all the way to the brim, and I feel like I could overflow. I like you so much I don’t know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I’m going to see you again. And then, when you look at me the way you do, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”

— Jenny Han

272. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

275. “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

276. “As I bicycle home, it starts to rain, cold, almost-snow kind of rain, and I’m glad. I can blame my wet cheeks on the rain.”

— Jenny Han

277. “It doesn’t work like that. You don’t just pick your song. The song picks you. Like the Sorting Hat.”

— Jenny Han

278. “He drives off into the night and I’m still standing there with my fingers to my lips. Peter Kavinsky just kissed me.”

— Jenny Han

279. “He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have.”

— Jenny Han

280. “I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other it feels like I have.”

— Jenny Han

281. “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

282. “Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away.”

— Jenny Han

283. “The only person I wanted was Susannah. She was the only one.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

285. “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

286. “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

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

— Jenny Han

288. “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” – MARGERY WILLIAMS.”

— Jenny Han

289. “I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”

— Jenny Han

290. “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

291. “That’s when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn’t the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn’t enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough.”

— Jenny Han

292. “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

293. “You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.”

— Jenny Han

294. “Us,” Peter corrects. “I did it for us.” He links our fingers together. “It’s you and me, kid.”

— Jenny Han

295. “The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?”

— Jenny Han

296. “It’s funny how much of your childhood is about proximity.”

— Jenny Han

297. “Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.”

— Jenny Han

298. “I’m clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I’m hurting now, he’ll hurt ten times worse. That’s the only thing that keeps me going.”

— Jenny Han

299. “I remember what it felt like to fall in love for the first time. You think you’ll never love like that again. But you do.”

— Jenny Han

300. “He kissed like he was drowning and I was air. It was passionate, and desperate, and like nothing I had ever experienced before. This.”

— Jenny Han