Quotes from Jenny Han

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.

The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?

He could be wearing a red letterman's jacket, driving around in a Corvette with the top down, one arm on the steering wheel, on his way to pick up his girl for the sock hop.

But then she says, "What if we use our cookie cutter to make heart-shaped pancakes instead? And put in red food coloring?" I beam at her. "Attagirl!" So maybe she's got a little bit of me in her after all. Kitty continues. "We could put red food coloring in the syrup, too, to make it look like blood. A bloody heart!

I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep. Peter

So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, "You have to take good care of this, because it's yours.

This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

La gente entra y sale de tu vida. Por un tiempo son tu mundo; lo son todo. Y un día ya no lo son.

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

But still I hope, because I can't help but hope.

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them, that's how they really are." -Belly

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.

If I kept you with me, I was going to hurt you somehow. I knew it. I couldn't have it. So I let you go.

You only likes guys you don't have a shot with, because you're scared. What are you so scared of?" I back away from him, right into the wall. "I'm not scared of anything." "The hell you're not. You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage. I'm looking at my closet now and everything is garbage.

The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realise it's happening, you get used to things being different...

I trust that when the time comes, I will know what's best.

We're on an adventure, she yells. We don't need cell phones for an adventure.

put my hand to his chest, over his heart. I can feel it beating. I let my hand fall away. His heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break. So

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

You keep your summer house and your summer boys all to yourself and you don't want to share anything with me. We finally get to spend a whole summer together and you don't even care! All you care about is being in Cousins, with them.

They had such a good meet-cute," I croak.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's not telling how long you will have them near. It's the good-byes that are hard.

I felt it a week before we left, every time. And then of course, when the time came, I was never ready to leave. I wanted to stay forever.