Quotes from Jenny Han

I've got my Motown girl-group music playing, and my supplies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I've cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrapbook has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.

I just—want to always know that you're okay. It's important to me.

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind.

I wished there was something I could say to take that look away, but sometimes there just weren't words.

Baking calms me; it's stabilizing. It's what I do when I don't want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you- you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

Son las imperfecciones las que hacen las cosas hermosas.

It's do or die. D-day.

I love your dress!" Kendra says to me. "Thank you!" I say. "It's vintage." She recoils in real horror. " Oh my God. Are the nineties considered vintage now?" Trina says, "Yes, girl. Their nineties are our seventies." She shudders. "That's terrifying. Are we old?" "We're geriatric," Trina says, but cheerfully.

Life doesn't have to be so planned.

He kissed like he was drowning and I was air. It was passionate, and desperate, and like nothing I had ever experienced before. This

So I guess it's okay with you if I smoke up too?" says Steven. "If you get breast cancer

Leave with the one you came with, unless he's a drunk—then find your own way home.

Catching him off guard felt like a good sign. He had a million walls. Maybe if I just started talking, he wouldn't have time to build up a new one.

she went as a "formal apology": she wore a floor-length evening gown we found at Goodwill for ten dollars, and she had a sign around her neck, written in calligraphy, which said, I'm sorry.

the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans.

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want

Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are

There is a specific kind of fight you can only have with your sister.

Peter grabs my hand mid-swat and says, "Wanna hear something funny?" "What?" "I think I started liking you.

Before he goes to the boys' side and I go to the girls' side, I kiss him one more time and I feel like I'm flying.

God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?

It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, expectations. And wants.

I envied their relationship. They were exactly like copilots, in perfect balance. I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.