Quotes from Jenny Han

How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?

Halfway through class he sends me a note. He's drawn spiderwebs around the edges. It says, I'll be on time tomorrow. I smile as I read it. Then I put it in my backpack, in my French textbook so the page won't crease or crumble. I want to keep it so when this is over, I can have something to look at and remember what it was like to be Peter Kavinsky's girlfriend. Even if it was all just pretend.

Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.

Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We're all just counting down, passing time. Everyone knows where they're going, and the right now already feels like it's in the rearview.

it's scary when it's real. when it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real person in front of you, with, like, expectations. and wants.

I know now that I don't want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all

Elaine and I sit on the porch and wait for Mark to come over. She tells me my hair looks pretty, and I compliment her on her new suit again. I wish I had a two-piece. We see Mark coming up the walk with a blue towel slung around his neck, and Elaine whispers, "Here comes your

Also I think you're stalling because you don't want to answer the question.

He's giving me that look - sympathetic but also exasperated and mystified, like How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?

What's to be sad about?" I'm about to deny being sad, but then I just sigh and say, "I don't know." Kitty grabs a handful of popcorn and drops a few kernels on the floor, which Jamie gobbles up. "How can you not know?" "Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Maybe," I say, just to be nice. It'll be too much of a pain to bring all my supplies downstairs and get set up again. I'm in a good rhythm right now.

He was marrying my girl, and I couldn't do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised. Take care of him, Connie. I'm counting on you.

What's to be sad about?' 'I don't know.' 'How can you not know?' 'Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. There just gone.

You only know of you can do something if you keep doing it.

Aku hanya membiarkan orang memercayai apa yang mereka inginkan. Aku tidak berkewajiban menunjukkan diriku pada mereka.

Suddenly life feels fast and slow at the same time. It's like being in two places at once.

You only know id you can do something if you keep doing it.

Elaine and Mark don't know each other very well. The only thing those two have in common is me, and I get the feeling they're not crazy about each other. Well, it's more than just a feeling. Mark thinks Elaine talks too much, and Elaine thinks Mark is dull. The three of us don't hang

Then she'll drink. Sometimes it's like there's this well of sadness inside her, and she has to drink to fill it up. And then sometimes it's like there's a monster inside of her, and drinking's the only thing that will calm it down. And sometimes she drinks just because.

and I'm already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July.

You're both growing and changing and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate.

Anybody with one eye and half a brain could tell what a tool that guy is.

My hair was hanging low, and from the backseat, all of a sudden, I felt Conrad touching it, running his fingers through the bottom. I think I stopped breathing. We were sitting in perfect silence, and Conrad Fisher was playing with my hair.