Quotes from Jenny Han

I'm pretty sure I at least said hello." Teasingly he says, "No, I'm pretty sure you didn't." He's right: I didn't. I was too flustered. Kind of like right now. IT must be that distance between knowing someone when you were a kid and seeing them now that you're both more grown-up, but still not all the way grown-up, and there are all these years and letters in between you, and you don't know how to act.

So no, he didn't gave me flowers or candy. He gave me the mood and the stars. Infinity

Sorry for not calling, but not sorry for going.

There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, That was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea. And then there are the moments that you know are big. That whatever you do next, there will be an impact. Your life could go in one of two directions. Do or die.

pizzas like wild beasts. They're dripping pool water all over the food, and I elbow my way in to get a couple of pieces of pepperoni before they're either soggy or gone. As I inhale my first piece, I overhear Mairi announce that she's on a no-carb diet. Hadley says she wouldn't eat greasy pizza anyway, and Sherilyn looks crestfallen. Lightly, I say, "Didn't I see you

Tell me the truth. Does my hair look like shit? It doesn't, right? Gen's just a heinous troll. Right?" I hesitate the tiniest of beats. "Right.

Peter's smiling, and he looks like he's about to crack a joke, so I swiftly add, "Or any other body part.

How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night. I've always been scared of change, but right now I didn't feel that way. I feel excited. I'm seeing now what a privilege it is, to be excited about where I'm going.

The stars are out by the dozen; they look like faraway gems. We're so lucky to live by the mountains the way we do. You just feel closer to the stars. To heaven.

my stuffed polar bear hugged to his chest.

Why am I the one making all these concessions, pretending to be okay with something I'm not actually okay with? Just to keep him?

was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written on my face like a poem.

Sherilyn's mom brings out a couple of pizzas, and of course the boys stumble out of the pool and fall onto the pizzas like wild beasts. They're dripping pool water all over the food, and I elbow my way in to get a couple of pieces of pepperoni before they're either soggy or gone. As I inhale my first piece, I overhear Mairi announce that she's on a no-carb diet. Hadley says she wouldn't eat greasy pizza anyway, and Sherilyn looks crestfallen.

UNC is a choice I didn't even know I had, like a door that magically appeared, a door that could lead anywhere.

I'm going to date a bunch of Scottish guys when I get back to school. When else will I have another opportunity like that, right?" I giggle and roll over so we're face-to-face. "No, wait--don't date a bunch of Scottish guys. Date one from England, one from Ireland, one from Scotland. And Wales! A tour of the British Empire!" "Well, I am going to school to study anthropology," Margot says, and we giggle some more.

Do you have any idea how badly you've hurt her, over and over again? You treat her like a toy that you just pick up and play with whenever you feel like it. You're like a little boy. Someone else took what was yours, and you don't like that one bit, so you swoop in and shit all over everything just because you can.

Later Sherilyn's mom brings out a couple of pizzas, and of course the boys stumble out of the pool and fall onto the pizzas like wild beasts. They're dripping pool water all over the food, and I elbow my way in to get a couple of pieces of pepperoni before they're either soggy or gone. As I inhale my first piece, I overhear Mairi announce that she's on a no-carb diet. Hadley says she wouldn't eat greasy pizza anyway, and Sherilyn looks crestfallen.

Stevie Wonder.

What are you up to tonight, bean?" my mother asked me. I loved it when she called me bean. It reminded me of being six years old and falling asleep in her bed.

I never knew it before, but I think maybe all this time I've been invisible. Just someone who was there. Now that people think I'm Peter Kavinsky's girlfriend, they're wondering about me. Like, why? What about me made Peter like me? What do I have? What makes me so special? I would be wondering too. I am now a Mysterious Girl. Before I was just a Quiet Girl. But becoming Peter's girlfriend has elevated me to Mysterious Girl.

I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so... familiar to me. And not he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse.

Porque vivo en el mundo real, no como tú. Prefieres habitar en un mundo de fantasía antes que ver cómo son los demás realmente.

Había cambiado. Y, sin embargo, me seguía afectando de la misma forma. Me sentía como si estuviese en lo alto de una montaña rusa, justo antes de lanzarme por la primera pendiente.

When he was in the middle of a lean in, I heard pissed off, belligerent voices coming from the deck outside. One of them was definitely Conrad's pissed off, belligerent voice. I jumped up. "Something's going on out there.