Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “Who ever heard of making pancakes or frittata for just one person?”

— Jenny Han

306. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

309. “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

310. “Margot doesn’t see the point in wondering. This is our life; there’s no use in asking what if.”

— Jenny Han

311. “You’re keeping me going, Lara Jean.” Josh looks at me and I feel it all, every memory, every moment we’ve ever shared.”

— Jenny Han

312. “People will love you or hate you for being different, but who’s to say which way it’ll go? You never know. It’s completely arbitrary.”

— Jenny Han

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Jenny Han

316. “Although I’m tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night’s rest, I can’t bring myself to fall asleep. It’s like I’ve forgotten how.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

318. “My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.”

— Jenny Han

319. “It sure is nice being part of a group, feeling like I belong.”

— Jenny Han

320. “I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”

— Jenny Han

321. “I pat her on the head. “Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake.”

— Jenny Han

322. “Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid.” I didn’t think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It’s why she took up gymnastics.”

— Jenny Han

323. “Peter is loyal to her first, me second. It’s first Genevieve, then me. That is the deal. That’s always been the deal. And I’m sick of it.”

— Jenny Han

324. “You don’t deserve him,” she spits out. I.”

— Jenny Han

325. “One day soon you’ll be in the world, and you’ll have so many options you won’t know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you’re so beautiful and so charming, and you’ll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.”

— Jenny Han

326. “Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always.”

— Jenny Han

327. “Maybe it’s not that I’m a Mysterious Girl. Maybe it’s that I’m a Not Good Enough Girl.”

— Jenny Han

328. “I know most sisters don’t get along, but I’m closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world. How can we be the Song girls without Margot?”

— Jenny Han

329. “Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.”

— Jenny Han

330. “If someone is giving you a compliment, I don’t think they should have to tell you they’re giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.”

— Jenny Han

331. “You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it.”

— Jenny Han

332. “But it feels like everything all around me is shifting in ways I didn’t expect, when all I want is for things to stand still.”

— Jenny Han

333. “You’re teenagers. Life doesn’t always work out the way you think it’s going to work out...”

— Jenny Han

334. “He looks at you a lot. When you’re not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you’re having a good time.”

— Jenny Han

335. “You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.”

— Jenny Han

336. “The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?”

— Jenny Han

337. “But I also just wish I could have a hug from my mom on my graduation day.”

— Jenny Han

338. “I know most sisters don’t get along, but I’m closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world.”

— Jenny Han

339. “I think that if I just delete him enough it will be like none of it ever happened, and my heart won’t hurt so badly.”

— Jenny Han

340. “I look at Peter’s profile out of the corner of my eye. Sometimes I still can’t believe he’s mine. The handsomest boy of all the handsome boys is mine, all mine.”

— Jenny Han

341. “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.”

— Jenny Han

342. “It might not have been him. But it doesn’t matter, Lara Jean, because even if he didn’t encourage all the talk, I doubt he discouraged it, if you know what I’m saying.”

— Jenny Han

343. “We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I’m right here, I wanted to tell him. I’m still here.”

— Jenny Han

344. “To love a boy, to have him love you back. It feels miraculous.”

— Jenny Han

345. “Longing is its own kind of perverse delight.”

— Jenny Han

346. “That night, I didn’t sleep at all. I stayed up, thinking about what to do. What was the right thing to do? Because I knew I loved you. But I knew I shouldn’t. I didn’t have the right to love anybody then.”

— Jenny Han

347. “It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, expectations. And wants.”

— Jenny Han

348. “Years from now this will be what I remember when I remember my spring break senior year. It will be this moment right here. The smell of chlorine on his skin. The way the sun dips slow into the water before it disappears. The first time I ever told a boy I loved him.”

— Jenny Han

349. “I wonder, though... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back. Would it be scary only for a second or two, or would it be scary the whole time? What if I didn’t like it at all? Or what if I liked it too much? It’s a lot to think about.”

— Jenny Han

350. “We three probably won’t ever live in the same house together again. We’ll come home for holidays and school breaks, but it won’t be the same. It won’t be what it was. But I suppose it hasn’t been, not since Margot left for college. The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realize it’s happening, you get used to things being different, and it will be that way for Kitty too.”

— Jenny Han