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Quotes About Commitment

I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody's first choice.
~ Jenny Han
Just one look across a bathroom fish tank was all it took? They knew it was a love worth dying for? Because they do not know. They believe. I guess the difference is, in those times people got married so much younger than they do now. Realistically, till death do us part probably only meant, like, fifteen or twenty years, because people didn't live as long back then.
~ Jenny Han
Even though, I know, they barely know each other, and their story is over before it even truly begins, and the real part would have been in the everyday, in the choosing to be with each other despite all the hardships.
~ Jenny Han
Why bother doing something if you're only going to do it halfway?
~ Jenny Han
Sometimes I wondered if we had rushed into getting married because we were both trying to prove something to the other and maybe even to ourselves. But then I think no, we truly did love each other. We truly did have the best of intentions. It, we, just weren't meant to be.
~ Jenny Han
it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands
~ Jenny Han
I know now that I don't want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all
~ Jenny Han
Maybe," I say, just to be nice. It'll be too much of a pain to bring all my supplies downstairs and get set up again. I'm in a good rhythm right now.
~ Jenny Han
You only know id you can do something if you keep doing it.
~ Jenny Han
Yo no tenía ese tipo de amistad, de las que duran toda una vida, pase lo que pase.
~ Jenny Han
Observando cómo servía esos huevos terribles fingiendo no estar triste, pensé para mí: «Voy a amar a este chico para siempre».
~ Jenny Han
I could never be with someone who didn't understand how important my family is to me.
~ Jenny Han
To belong to someone--I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.
~ Jenny Han
I didn't want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.
~ Jenny Han
So I'm supposed to stay with Josh because of you and Daddy and Kitty?
~ Jenny Han
Just because they did it doesn't mean we automatically are, or that he automatically even wants to." Does it? "He definitely wants to." Gulp. "Well, too bad, so sad, if that's the case. But honestly, I don't think it is." In this very moment I decide that Peter and I will the relationship equivalent of a brisket. Slow and low. We will heat up for each other over time.
~ Jenny Han
I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.
~ Jenny Han
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. 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.
~ Jenny Han
We're you and me. And yeah, it's gonna be hard. But Lara Jean, I'll never feel for another girl what I feel for you." He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have, and I have never loved him more than at this very moment.
~ Jenny Han
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.
~ Jenny Han
And Jeremiah, he was going to be my last and my every and my always.
~ Jenny Han
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk" -Lara Jean
~ Jenny Han
Do you remember that? You stayed with me and you pushed me back to shore, and the whole time, you kept saying, 'We're almost there,' and I believed it. I believed it because you were the one who was saying it, and I believed everything you ever said.
~ 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.
~ Jenny Han