Quotes from Jenny Han

And never trust the boy to bring the condom. A lady always brings her own.

After a couple of minutes things aren't looking so familiar, and I realize I should have taken a left instead of a right. I push down the panic that's rising in my chest and I try to backtrack. You can do it, you can do it.

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

Go to Jeremiah. He's the one who wants you," Conrad said. "I don't. I never did.

When I see him again, will he smile at me, make a joke of it to lighten the mood? Or will he pretend he never saw it, to spare us both? I think that would be worse.

I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want . . . life to start happening.

It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore.

It was like gradually 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 it had been love.

I once had that exact same thought about Josh, and look at me now: It's like a million years have gone by and he's just a memory to me.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.

Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.

I feel like a purse bulging with gold coins. I can't wait to spill.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

The whole reason I broke up with him was so I wouldn't be that girl crying over her boyfriend, and now that's exactly what I am. It's pathetic.

Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio.

Like always, it was Conrad who dictated the mood of the house, how everyone else felt.

Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Tell me what your wish is," he urges. "Wish for anything, and I'll give it to you, Lara Jean.

And Jeremiah, he was going to be my last and my every and my always.

Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio. Sigues conservando esos antiguos sentimientos por esa persona; no puedes librarte de ellos por completo; siempre guardarás un poco de ternura en tu corazón por esa persona.

I bit my lip to keep from saying, You have allergies, not swine flu.

I had the feeling that there was nothing more beautiful than this, that this particular sunset matched the beauty of anything in this world, ten times over. I could feel all the tension of the day drifting away from me and out to sea. I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn't get to come back again. You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.

Don't get too serious to where things can't go back.