Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

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304. “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.”

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

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306. “Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to be able to let him go. It was as simple and as hard as that. I had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn’t cut away. It was my own fault, really. I couldn’t let go of Conrad.”

— Jenny Han

307. “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

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

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

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310. “This is our story.”

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

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312. “A slow-motion train wreck. For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment.”

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

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

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

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316. “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.”

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317. “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.”

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318. “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.”

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319. “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.”

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

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

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322. “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.”

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

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324. “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.”

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

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326. “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.”

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327. “In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe.”

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

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329. “Peter’s gone away on his training weekend. It’s only been one day and I’m already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July. Peter is my cocoa in a cup, my red mittens, my Christmas morning feeling. He.”

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330. “What I really want to say is Peter will always pick Lara Jean over Genevieve.”

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

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332. “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.”

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333. “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?”

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

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335. “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.”

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336. “The clouds in his face clear away instantly, and he is sunny and bright again.”

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

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

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

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340. “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.”

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341. “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.”

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

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343. “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?”

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

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345. “It’ only then that I realize: Peter wasn’t the one who needed to get over Genevieve. It was me. All this time with Peter, I’ve been comparing myself to her, all the ways I don’t measure up. All the ways our relationship pales next to theirs. I’m the one who couldn’t let her go. I’m the one who didn’t give us a chance.”

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346. “It’s probably because you were each other’s firsts. That’s why you can’t let each other go. I’ve heard that’s how it is with firsts, especially with guys.”

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347. “I felt it a week before we left, every time. And then of course, when the time came, I was never ready to leave. I wanted to stay forever.”

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348. “Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy. I.”

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349. “Up close, your face wasn’t so much handsome as beautiful.”

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350. “It’s starting to make sense to me. Why he’d go along with a scheme like this, why he’d spend his time with someone like me. It’s not so he can move on from Gen. It’s so he can’t. I’m just his excuse. I’m holding Genevieve’s place for her. When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.”

— Jenny Han