Quotes from Jenny Han

And you've been a big help, but I think there are other things you could be focusing on that are more worthy of your time.

I'm trying to keep busy, keep a smile on my face: Tra-la-la, everything is lovely.

C'est effrayant quand ça devient réel. C'est une chose d'avoir des sentiments pour quelqu'un. C'en est une autre d'avoir la personne en face. De gérer ses attentes. Ses envies.

My whole body ached. I opened all the windows in my room and lay in the dark, just listening to the ocean. I wished the tide would carry me out and never bring me back.

My new treasures. I feel like I just robbed a bank and got away with it.

Thank God and Jesus for Christmas break. At least I have ten days before I have to back to school and face everyone.

Just go be young.

Margot's so excited about it that even in my current state of self-pity. I can't begrudge her.

Around three a.m. I throw away Peter's notes. I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly.

It's disappointing, how little self-control boys have.

Alors pourquoi tu m'a embrassé ? demande-t-il. -Si je t'ai embrassé, c'est justement parce que je ne t'aimes pas, je lui explique, comme si ça tombait sous le sens.

What is it with girls and rain?

I think most girls have that moment when boys they've known their whole life see them in a different way.

I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.

But the little things are what make up life

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.

I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.