Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Thinking these kinds of thoughts, feeling these kinds of feelings, it’s more than disloyal. I know that. It’s downright traitorous.”

— Jenny Han

352. “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

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

— Jenny Han

354. “Maybe I wasn’t worth remembering.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

356. “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

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

— Jenny Han

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

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

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364. “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

365. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

368. “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

369. “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

370. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

374. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

378. “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

379. “He thinks I’m so quirky. I’m not planning on being the one to break the news to him that I’m actually not that quirky, that in fact lots of people like to stay home and bake cookies and scrapbook and hang out in libraries. Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still.”

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

382. “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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383. “You’re in love with love.”

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384. “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.”

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385. “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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386. “What in the world? I stare at him, my mouth open. “I never said you had an STD!”

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387. “But then I think, no, I wouldn’t give up twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen with Peter for the world.”

— Jenny Han

388. “There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage.”

— Jenny Han

389. “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.”

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

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391. “But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn’t for me.”

— Jenny Han

392. “Chris gives me a new lipstick: red for when I want to be bad, she says.”

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393. “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

394. “You’re going, so take this contract back.”

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395. “I lie back down and close my eyes and imagine his arms are still around me, and that’s how I fall asleep.”

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

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397. “John nods. “So I gathered a bunch of sticks and some flowers and I arranged them into the letters FORMAL? in front of your window. But your dad came home while I was in the middle of it, and he thought I was going around cleaning people’s yards. He gave me ten bucks, and I lost my nerve and I just went home.”

— Jenny Han

398. “Baking calms me; it’s stabilizing. It’s what I do when I don’t want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you – you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It’s like magic. Poof, deliciousness.”

— Jenny Han

399. “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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400. “I can feel tears and panic building up inside me. If she asks me another question, it will be too much, and I’ll cry.”

— Jenny Han