Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

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

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403. “I see her car first.”

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

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406. “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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407. “There are moments in every girl’s Life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you can say oh, that was one of those life-changing, fork in the road moments and I didn’t even see it coming. I had no idea. And then there are the moments that you know are big. That whatever you do next, there will be an impact. Your life could go in one of two directions. Do or die. Enter this was one of those moments. Big. They didn’t get much bigger than this.”

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408. “I really wish I had enjoyed it more.”

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

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “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

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

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

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415. “And then he’s kissing me; his mouth is urgent against mine, like he’s searching for some sort of reassurance, some kind of promise only I can give.”

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416. “I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?”

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417. “There is something about walking into a room full of boys that makes you feel exposed, inadequate, like you come up short in every way that matters. It didn’t used to be like this, and I don’t know when it changed, but now it feels like it was always this way.”

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418. “If I win... do you know what I would wish for?” Don’t say it, don’t say it. Don’t say the thing you can’t take back. I’d wish we never started any of this.” The words echo in my head, in the air.”

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419. “Just because a girl is sad, it doesn’t mean it has anything to do with PMS.”

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420. “Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

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421. “Life doesn’t have to be so planned.”

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422. “Please, Peter. I know her well and so do you. Well, I did know her well. But I don’t think people change at the core. They are who they are.”

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423. “It’s hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt.”

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424. “It doesn’t matter that they’re broken up. He was hers first, which means he’s hers always.”

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425. “We’ll see,” I say, because I want to see him make that pouty face I love so much. He makes the face, and I reach up and pat his cheeks. “You’re such a baby.”

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426. “That’s how I’m feeling about everything these days: ugh. No.”

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427. “Under the blanket I find Margot’s hand and link my pinky with hers. “Sister swear.”

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428. “I wake up the next morning renewed. I am a girl with a plan. I’m just going to have to avoid Josh forever. It’s as simple as that.”

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429. “Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful library.”

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430. “I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don’t know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

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431. “It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.”

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432. “I tighten my fingers around his. If we just hold on tight enough, it will all be okay.”

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433. “All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.”

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434. “To picture him, sitting at his desk at home, scribbling away with a pen and paper, endears him to me so completely. It gives me shivers. Currents of electricity from my scalp down to my toes.”

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435. “I trust that when the time comes, I will know what’s best.”

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436. “Not for good. Just for now.”

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437. “It doesn’t become important until you don’t have it anymore.”

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438. “They had such a good meet-cute,” I croak.”

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439. “You’ll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen.”

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440. “Was i on five or six? “Peter! You made me lose my count again!” “I have that effect on women.” I roll my eyyes at him and he grins back at me, but before he can say anything else, I yell,” Kitty! Get down here!”

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441. “Me ayudas a seguir adelante, Lara Jean.”

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442. “No matter what, I always want to remember his face.”

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443. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away.”

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444. “I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.”

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445. “She would probably lump Chris in with the party girls, the girls who sleep around, the girls who aren’t “better than that.” She would be wrong. We’re all the same.”

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446. “Love is about making brave choices every day.”

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447. “Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely.”

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448. “Girl understand each other in a way boys never will.”

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449. “But I don’t think people change at the core.”

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450. “We’re on an adventure, she yells. We don’t need cell phones for an adventure.”

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