Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “She beams at me. “See? There’s a lot to be excited about. And don’t forget the Cheese Shop.” The.”

— Jenny Han

352. “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

353. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

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

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

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358. “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

359. “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

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

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361. “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

362. “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

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

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

— Jenny Han

365. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

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

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370. “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.”

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371. “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

372. “And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.”

— Jenny Han

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

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374. “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

375. “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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376. “You’re in love with love.”

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377. “It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it’d be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.”

— Jenny Han

378. “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

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

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381. “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

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

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383. “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

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

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385. “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

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

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

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

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390. “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

391. “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

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

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393. “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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394. “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.”

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

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

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397. “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.”

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han