Quotes from Jenny Han

I cried a lot. Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.

It can be tough with best friendships. You're both growing and changing, and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate.

Vivre pleinement chaque instant. Sois bien évéillée et consciente, tu comprends ? Immerge toi et savoure chaque goutte des expériences que tu vis

They're MFEO. Made for each other.

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

whatever else I need, I'll get when I'm there. That's the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.

It might be my imagination, but I think I hear his heart beating. His is beating and mine feels like it's breaking.

The thought of her getting older, outgrowing her toys, her art set…it makes me feel a bit melancholy. Growing up really is bittersweet.

As pessoas entram e saem da nossa vida. Durante uma época, são seu mundo; são tudo. E, um dia, não são mais. Não dá para saber por quanto tempo vamos tê-las por perto.

That letter you wrote

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.

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. -Margery Williams

What's the fun in anything if there aren't a few roadblocks to spice things up?

There is a finality to this moment. I know it, I just know it.

I'd hoped I wouldn't cry, because I knew Margot wouldn't, and it's lonely to cry alone, but I can't help it.

Which cake is yours? The coconut one?" My head snaps up. "I would never buy a grocery-store cake for this.

I don't know why I'm sitting here trying to give you advice. I'm a single divorcee and I'm forty. Two. Forty-two. What do I know about anything? That's a rhetorical question, by the way.

When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the night. The biggest Slurpee you can find, half cherry, half Coke. Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times, they are tissue-paper thin. And finally, dance breaks. Lots of dance breaks. When your eyes start to close and all you want is your bed, dance breaks will get you through.

That's a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.

I'm lucky to have had her for as long as I did.

I can't look like a cheap-ass in front of my boys.

Even though Margot isn't a loud person, it feels quiet at home. Empty, somehow.

I've never seen a man so devoted to his family. You three are the pearls in his crown, you know? And that's how it should be. A girl's relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.

I've heard people say you meet your best friends in college, and they're the ones you'll know your whole life, but I'm certain that I'll know Chris my whole life too. I'm a person who saves things. I'll hold on forever.