Quotes from Jenny Han

Ella no ve el punto en preguntarse. Esta es nuestra vida, no hay caso en preguntarse qué pasaría si… Nadie te puede dar las respuestas. Trato, de verdad, pero es difícil para mí aceptar esa forma de pensar. Siempre me estoy preguntando acerca de los ¿Y si…? sobre el camino no tomado.

Cuando alguien se ha ido durante mucho tiempo, primero guardas todas las cosas que quieres decirles. Intentas mantener un seguimiento de todo en tu cabeza. Pero es como si trataras de aferrarte a un puñado de arena, todos los pequeños trozos se deslizan de tus manos y entonces sólo estás reteniendo polvo y aire. Es por eso que no puedes guardarlo todo así.

I'm Conrad's brother, and this is--our friend," he said. "Do you know where he is?" Eric opened the door and let us in. "Dude, I have no idea. He just took off. Did Ari call you?" "Who's Ari?" I asked Jeremiah. "The RA," he said. "Ari the RA," I repeated, and the corners of Jeremiah's mouth turned up.

Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.

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.

Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still. 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.

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. It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.

non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?

Prefieres crear una fantasía de alguien en tu cabeza que estar con la persona real.

En la universidad, cuando las personas nos pregunten cómo nos conocimos, ¿Cómo les responderemos? La historia es: Crecimos juntos. Pero esa era más la historia con Josh. ¿Novios de preparatoria? Esa era la historia de Gen y Peter. Así que la nuestra ¿Cuál era? Supongo que diré que todo comenzó con una carta de amor.

A meet-cute is when the hero and heroine meet for the very first time, and it's always in a charming way. It's how you know they're going to end up together. The cuter the better." "Like in Terminator, when Reese saves Sarah Connor from the Terminator and he says, 'Come with me if you want to live.' Freaking amazing line.

My heart swelled. There are some things only a friend who's known you your whole life can say, and instantly, I felt a little better.

My phone buzzes, and it's a pitiful text from Daddy: Is it safe to come downstairs? I'm so thirsty. Coast is clear. Roger that.

Looking up at him, I had this sudden thought. Oh my God. I still love you.

What else had I remembered wrong? I was a person who loved to play Remember When in my head. I'd always prided myself on how I remembered every detail. It scared me to think that my memories could be just ever-so-slightly wrong.

We'll see," I say, because I want to see him make that pouty face I love so much. He makes the face, and I reach up and pat his cheeks. "You're such a baby.

I move to slug him in the shoulder, and he laughs and grab my hand and links my finger with his. It feels like my heart is beating right through my hand. It's the first time we've hold hands for real, and it feels different from those fake times. like electric currents, in a good way. The best way.

Trina, when did you figure out that you and my dad were the real thing?" "I don't know. . . . I think I just—decided." "Decided on what?" "Decided on him. On us." She smiles at me. "On all of it.

Susannah wanted it to be some kind of perfect summer, where parents were still together and everything was the way it had always been. Those kind of summers don't exist anymore, I wanted to tell her.

I'm gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French." He winks at me. Kitty and I both scream at him for that. "Don't talk like that in front of my sister!" I yell, shoving him in the chest. "I was kidding!" "Also, you're not that good at French kissing." Even though, yeah, he is. Peter gives me a Who are you kidding? look, and I shrug, because who am I kidding?

The only thing I'll say is, make your own friends. Peter will be making tons of friends because of lacrosse, and the people he'll be friends with aren't necessarily the kinds of people you'd pick to be friends with. So make your own friends. Find your people. (Margot to Lara Jean)

My mom used to say not to go to college with a boyfriend, because you'll lose out on a true freshman experience." "Well, to be fair, your mom never met Peter Kavinsky.

Hmm" is all Margot says, and the skeptical look on her face makes me want to x her right off the screen.

Peter's mom told me he was talking about transferring to UNC next year. She wanted me to break up with him before he messed up his life for me." "Damn! Peter's mom is kind of a bitch!" "She didn't use those exact words, but that was the gist of it.