Quotes from Jenny Han

La distancia llegó lentamente, como el agua de mar llenando un bote, sin que ni siquiera nos diéramos cuenta. Antes de que uno lo sepa, se encuentra bajo el agua.

There were times I feel left out anyway. Not in a romantic way, but a friend way.

The day after graduation, the senior class packs up and goes to Nags Head for a week. Never in a million years did I think I would be going. For one thing, you have to gather up enough friends to rent a house together - like ten friends!

Stormy taught me that love is about making brave choices every day. That's what Stormy did. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same. And now she's off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.

I felt like the kid in the backseat who can't hear what the adults are talking about, it made me feel a little but invisible.

La gente entra y sale de tu vida. Por un tiempo son tu mundo; lo son todo. Y un día ya no lo son. No hay manera de decir cuánto tiempo los tendrás cerca.

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 ... What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone?

she still thinks she owns his ass.

You're cooler than any other girl I've ever met, and you're there for me. You've always been there for me. I… I can count on you. And you can count on me too. You know that.

I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes ... You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't.

Angry walking sure gets you places in a hurry.

He thinks I'm so quirky. I'm not planning on being the one to break the news to him that I'm actually not that quirky, that in fact lots of people like to stay home and bake cookies and scrapbook and hang out in libraries. Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still.

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 raise yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

I wake up the next morning renewed. I am a girl with a plan. I'm just going to have to avoid Josh forever. It's as simple as that.

Dear God, please, please let me get into UVA.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of girl when it comes to weather, I'd much rather it all melt away or have feet and feet of snow, so deep your knees sink in.

Nunca digas no cuando realmente quieres decir que sí.

Everything made sense in that moment. This was my chance to make things right with Conrad. The way I saw it, this was what I had been waiting for and I hadn't even known it. It was like the last two months I had been sleepwalking, and now here I was, finally awake. I had a goal, a purpose.

Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy. I

Jeremiah turned his head toward me and winked lazily. "See you soon.

Puedes romper mi corazón. Haz lo que quieras con él

I live in reality, unlike you. You'd rather live in a fantasy world than see people for who they really are.

Peter no era el que necesitaba superar a Genevieve. Era yo

I see her car first.