Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, expectations. And wants.”

— Jenny Han

352. “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

353. “I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going.”

— Jenny Han

354. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

357. “It’s funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.”

— Jenny Han

358. “It’s a white-gold princess cut with a diamond halo.”

— Jenny Han

359. “All I know is that every minute without him feels interminably long, like I’m waiting, just waiting for him to come back to me.”

— Jenny Han

360. “It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it’s like the last four years never happened, and I’m feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

362. “We are sisters, and there’s nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

365. “I keep trying to block it out, but it keeps on coming back.”

— Jenny Han

366. “Thinking these kinds of thoughts, feeling these kinds of feelings, it’s more than disloyal. I know that. It’s downright traitorous.”

— Jenny Han

367. “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

368. “Once I asked her why she didn’t like nuts on her sundae, and she said she did like them, but I loved them. And she loved me.”

— Jenny Han

369. “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

370. “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

371. “There’s no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

374. “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.”

— Jenny Han

375. “I don’t answer. I just kiss him.”

— Jenny Han

376. “Angry walking sure gets you places in a hurry.”

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377. “I have a feeling that when I’m Stormy’s age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter’s head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.”

— Jenny Han

378. “Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you’re the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You’re the one people whisper about. I’ve seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!”

— Jenny Han

379. “It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

— Jenny Han

380. “I take a deep breath. “Okay. I can live with that. I mean, who cares about a hot makeout, right? That’s just part of life, right? And you can barely even see my face? You’d have to really know me to know it was me. My full name isn’t on here anywhere, just Lara Jean. There must be a ton of Lara Jeans, right? Right?” Margot.”

— Jenny Han

381. “You’re in love with love.”

— Jenny Han

382. “She’d mopped the floors that morning; they were shiny and everything smelled like lemons and clean house. The phone was ringing in the kitchen, she came running in to answer it, and she slipped. She hit her head on the floor, and she was unconscious, but then she woke up and she was fine. That was her lucid interval. That’s what they call it. A little while later she said she had a headache, she went to lie down on the couch, and then she didn’t wake up.”

— Jenny Han

383. “They had looked at me like I was a real girl, not just somebody’s little sister.”

— Jenny Han

384. “El amor es aterrador: Cambia, se puede ir. Es parte del riesgo.”

— Jenny Han

385. “I know Josh and I will mend things, because we’re neighbors, and that’s how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own. But not so for Margot and Josh, with her so far away. If they don’t talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they’ll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.”

— Jenny Han

386. “I like him in sweaters. I get the urge to cuddle and pet him like a stuffed animal.”

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387. “I move to slug him in the shoulder, and he laughs and grab my hand and links my finger with his. It feels like my heart is beating right through my hand. It’s the first time we’ve hold hands for real, and it feels different from those fake times. like electric currents, in a good way. The best way.”

— Jenny Han

388. “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

389. “Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still. 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

390. “I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.”

— Jenny Han

391. “Wistfully, she says, “I wish I’d been in love more than once. I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school.” Then she lets out a little sigh and falls asleep. Margot falls asleep like that – – one dream sigh and she’s off to never-never land, just like that.”

— Jenny Han

392. “My voice was high and desperate, and I was crying, and I hated that I was crying, but I couldn’t help it. I had to keep talking, because this was it. Last chance.”

— Jenny Han

393. “Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don’t love me.”

— Jenny Han

394. “Is this how people lose touch? I didn’t think that could happen with sisters. Maybe with other people, but never us.”

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395. “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.”

— Jenny Han

396. “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.”

— Jenny Han

397. “Ese es todo el punto de una aventura. Empacar ligero y resolver el resto cuando lo necesite.”

— Jenny Han

398. “Let’s let people think we’re a couple.”

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399. “She’s kind to me, but there’s this distrust, this wariness. It’s a let’s-wait-and-see kind of feeling- let’s wait and see when you hurt my son again.”

— Jenny Han

400. “Stormy, who was larger than life, who taught me how to apply red lipstick “so it lasts even after a night of kisses and champagne,” she said. I.”

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