Quotes from Jenny Han

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept drifting back to Lara Jean and Peter, wondering what they were up to.

You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

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

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

Change is hard but inevitable.