Quotes from Jenny Han

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

Never say no when you really want to say yes.

I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice

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

I didn't fall for you, you tripped me!

I say, "In the contract we said we wouldn't break each other's hearts. What if we do it again?" Fiercely he says, "What if we do? If we're so guarded, it's not going to be anything. Let's do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let's go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.

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

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

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. He was part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms

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

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

I love Jere more than anybody. He's my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too." His voice broke. "Don't marry him. Don't be with him. Be with me.

I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly

So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.

I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.

I've only ever loved two boys—both of them with the last name Fisher. Conrad was first, and 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.

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.

I love Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my whole life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's

Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.

For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.

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