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Quotes About Connection

Cuando pierdes a alguien y todavía duele, ahí es cuando sabes que el amor fue real.
~ Jenny Han
He was going to be my last and my every and my always.
~ Jenny Han
Ever since I got your letter … I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.
~ Jenny Han
You're keeping me going, Lara Jean." Josh looks at me and I feel it all, every memory, every moment we've ever shared.
~ Jenny Han
And then he's kissing me; his mouth is urgent against mine, like he's searching for some sort of reassurance, some kind of promise only I can give.
~ Jenny Han
I don't want to have to play catch-up at the end of the day. I need to be a part of his daily life and he needs to be a part of mine.
~ Jenny Han
So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, "You have to take good care of this, because it's yours." He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure--he's never looked at another girl quite like this. And then I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know--this is the night we become real.
~ Jenny Han
But that's just inscapable, right? When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.
~ Jenny Han
I will never forget tonight, not for as long as I live. One day, if I'm lucky, I'll tell some young girl all my stories, just like Stormy told me hers. And I'll get to live them again. When I'm old and gray, I will look back on this night, and I will remember it just as it was. Is. We're still here. It's not the future yet.
~ Jenny Han
It's starting to make sense to me. Why he'd go along with a scheme like this, why he'd spend his time with someone like me. It's not so he can move on from Gen. It's so he can't. I'm just his excuse. I'm holding Genevieve's place for her. When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.
~ Jenny Han
Wanna hear something funny?" "What?" "I think I started liking you.
~ Jenny Han
Hear me out, just for a minute. Please. I'm begging you." He sounded strangled and hoarse.
~ Jenny Han
Girls understand each other in a way boys never will.
~ Jenny Han
It's the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours.
~ Jenny Han
You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no matter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love" -Trina
~ Jenny Han
I don't answer. I just kiss him.
~ Jenny Han
But I also just wish I could have a hug from my mom on my graduation day.
~ Jenny Han
I like to watch Peter when he doesn't know I'm looking. I like to admire the straight line of his jaw, the curve of his cheekbone. There's an openness to his face, an innocence--a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most.
~ Jenny Han
For me there was—is—nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.
~ Jenny Han
Even now, all these years later, I still read them—Conrad's letters to me when I was studying abroad in Spain. Just every once in a while, I pull them all out and sit down and read each one. I know them all by heart, but they still touch me, they still make me feel it all over again.… To think that once we were both very young, and very far apart, and still finding our way back to each other.
~ Jenny Han
Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still. I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.
~ Jenny Han
Prefieres crear una fantasía de alguien en tu cabeza que estar con la persona real.
~ Jenny Han
En la universidad, cuando las personas nos pregunten cómo nos conocimos, ¿Cómo les responderemos? La historia es: Crecimos juntos. Pero esa era más la historia con Josh. ¿Novios de preparatoria? Esa era la historia de Gen y Peter. Así que la nuestra ¿Cuál era? Supongo que diré que todo comenzó con una carta de amor.
~ Jenny Han
A meet-cute is when the hero and heroine meet for the very first time, and it's always in a charming way. It's how you know they're going to end up together. The cuter the better." "Like in Terminator, when Reese saves Sarah Connor from the Terminator and he says, 'Come with me if you want to live.' Freaking amazing line.
~ Jenny Han