Jenny Han Quotes

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

But the little things are what make up life

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.

You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.

I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

I hate change more than almost anything.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

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

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

I don’t even care enough to set the record straight. It was hilarious, what a huge liar she was. She actually believed her own bullshit.