Quotes from Jenny Han

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have,

we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. I knew that now- that love wasn't something you could erase no matter how hard you tried.

She loves a reaction, so I'm careful to not give her one.

Lucas, I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story—like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

you thank you!" According to Daddy, he picked the puppy up from the animal shelter

Taylor was the crappy friend, not me. She was the selfish one.

I just need to burrow in my little hobbit hole for a while, and when I'm ready, I'll come out again and be all right.

When you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, you only want to be with that person, and you forget about everybody else, and then when the two of you break up, you've lost all your friends. They were off doing fun stuff without you.

I'm sorry you got that letter. You were never supposed to see that. It wasn't meant for you to ever read. It was just for me.

I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want...life to start happening. I want to fall in love and I want a boy to fall in love with me back.

I wasn't in Cousins. Conrad and I weren't together, and Susannah was dead.

I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

They aren't as douchey as people say. They're good people.

Podría ser un gallardo soldado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo suficientemente guapo para que una chica esperara años por su regreso de la guerra, tan atractivo que ella podría esperar por siempre.

Probablemente clasificaría a Chris con las chicas fiesteras, las chicas que duermen con todos, las chicas que no son "mejores que eso". Se equivocaría. Todas somos iguales.

So I'm supposed to stay with Josh because of you and Daddy and Kitty?

When did you know you were in love?" I didn't have an answer to that question. There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like a gradual waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that I had been love.

And then I smile at him, and it takes a lot of effort. It takes so much effort. But if I don't smile, I'll cry.

Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either... But one day maybe it will be.

He knows me well enough to know that I just need to burrow in my little hobbit hole for a while, and when I'm ready, I'll come out again and be all right.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful" ? Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Conrad would never; it wasn't his style.