Jenny Han Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Mistake, Parent

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to-it's dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2011). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Jenny Han

  Summer, Winter, June

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jenny Han

  Love Is, Exorcism, Letters

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

  Jenny Han

  Hot, Hot Pink, Straws

  Jenny Han (2010). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jenny Han

  School, Lasts, Firsts

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.62, Scholastic UK

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• 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.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

  Jenny Han

  Dream, Space, Wake Up

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

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Dream

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

  Jenny Han

  Real, Mean, Doe

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

  Jenny Han

  Taken, Thinking, Giving

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.18, Scholastic UK

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

  Jenny Han

  Beach, Real, Night

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jenny Han

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Jenny Han (2010). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jenny Han

  Wall, Secret, Bed

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

  Jenny Han

  Sides, Bright Side

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.77, Scholastic UK

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• When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jenny Han

  Giving, What If, Asking

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate change more than almost anything.

  Jenny Han

  Hate, I Hate

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jenny Han

  Thinking, Differences, Belonging

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Jenny Han

  Liking Someone, Way, Feels

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults.

  Jenny Han

  Insult, Sometimes

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