Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Who ever heard of making pancakes or frittata for just one person?”

— Jenny Han

302. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

305. “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

306. “But that’s just inscapable, right? When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”

— Jenny Han

307. “Lara Jean, why do you have to remember every little thing? It’s not healthy.”

— Jenny Han

308. “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

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

— Jenny Han

310. “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

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

— Jenny Han

312. “This is our story.”

— Jenny Han

313. “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

314. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

316. “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

317. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

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

— Jenny Han

324. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

327. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Jenny Han

334. “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

335. “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

336. “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

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

— Jenny Han

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

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

— Jenny Han

342. “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

343. “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.”

— Jenny Han

344. “She beams at me. “See? There’s a lot to be excited about. And don’t forget the Cheese Shop.” The.”

— Jenny Han

345. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

347. “There is a specific kind of fight you can only have with your sister.”

— Jenny Han

348. “We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone.”

— Jenny Han

349. “You’re a little player, Covey. We aren’t even broken up yet and you’re already trying to talk to other guys. I would be hurt if I wasn’t impressed.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han