Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “You can chalk up things to coincide so many times before you have to face the truth.”

— Jenny Han

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Jenny Han

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

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

— Jenny Han

260. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

264. “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

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

— Jenny Han

266. “You’re the milk to my shake.”

— Jenny Han

267. “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

268. “Who could have done this to me?” I wail, pressing my hands to my cheeks. “I can’t feel my face. Is my face still my face?”

— Jenny Han

269. “The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realise it’s happening, you get used to things being different...”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

274. “It’s a known fact that in life, you can’t have everything.”

— Jenny Han

275. “But I don’t think people change at the core. They are who they are.”

— Jenny Han

276. “Love. He said “love.” I feel dizzy. I am a girl who is loved, by a boy, and not just her sisters and father and dog.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

278. “You can’t put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren’t.”

— Jenny Han

279. “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

280. “I’ve got my Motown girl-group music playing, and my supplies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I’ve cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrapbook has texture. It’s thick and chunky and doesn’t close all the way.”

— Jenny Han

281. “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

282. “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

283. “I don’t like taking my eyes away from what’s happening right in front of me, not for a second.”

— Jenny Han

284. “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

285. “I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.”

— Jenny Han

286. “You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.”

— Jenny Han

287. “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

288. “And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.”

— Jenny Han

289. “I need peace,” I say, closing my eyes. “I need to replenish myself with peace.”

— Jenny Han

290. “God, I don’t know! Quit interrogating me, Peter.”

— Jenny Han

291. “Stormy taught me that love is about making brave choices every day. That’s what Stormy did. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same. And now she’s off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.”

— Jenny Han

292. “If you make Josh’s dumb white- chocolate cranberry cookies and not my fruitcake ones, it’s over.”

— Jenny Han

293. “You know how I know she’s your most important person? You pick her every time.”

— Jenny Han

294. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

297. “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

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

— Jenny Han

299. “I just let people believe what they please. I don’t feel like it’s my responsibility to quantify myself for them.”

— Jenny Han

300. “Sin ti, las emociones de hoy serian incrustaciones del ayer.”

— Jenny Han