Top 500 Jenny Han Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Jenny Han

403. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

407. “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

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Jenny Han

413. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

419. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

422. “I see her car first.”

— Jenny Han

423. “That night, I didn’t sleep at all. I stayed up, thinking about what to do. What was the right thing to do? Because I knew I loved you. But I knew I shouldn’t. I didn’t have the right to love anybody then.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

426. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

431. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

438. “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.”

— Jenny Han

439. “Leave with the one you came with, unless he’s a drunk – then find your own way home.”

— Jenny Han

440. “The thrill of a boy putting his hands on you for the first time.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

442. “Haven admits. “Like, how did you get him? No offense. I just thought you were the non-dating type.” I frown. The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

444. “As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say “Go play outside” to you anymore to you.”

— Jenny Han

445. “I just wouldn’t want it to be less special, after we do it. I want it to always be a sacred thing, not something to take for granted because everybody else does it, or because we’ve done it before. I suppose anything can become ordinary or commonplace if you do it enough times, but my hope is that this never is. Not for us.”

— Jenny Han

446. “No, I’m gonna get it. Just give me a second. I’m gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French. – He winks at me.”

— Jenny Han

447. “It’s such a normal thing to be discussing on a Thursday evening, but I feel so strange, because it’s as if the earth is shifting beneath my feet, and the ground isn’t steady anymore, but everyone around me is talking about food.”

— Jenny Han

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

— Jenny Han

449. “Not for good. Just for now.”

— Jenny Han

450. “At dinner Trina and Margot are cordial to each other, as if nothing happened. Which, in some ways, is worse than a fight. At least when you’re in a fight, you’re in it with someone.”

— Jenny Han