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

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Jenny Han

406. “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.”

— Jenny Han

407. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

410. “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

411. “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.”

— Jenny Han

412. “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

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

— Jenny Han

414. “I see her car first.”

— Jenny Han

415. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

419. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

422. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

424. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

430. “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.”

— Jenny Han

431. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

435. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

439. “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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

442. “This is two romantic things in a row, so I figure I should praise him accordingly, because the boy responds well to positive reinforcement.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

444. “Not for good. Just for now.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

448. “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!”

— Jenny Han

449. “Daddy tips my chin. Firmly he says, “I would be nowhere without her, because I wouldn’t have my girls.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han