752 Quotes by Jenny Han

You’d rather make up fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

I let out a long sigh. In.

I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we’d have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I’ll remember my whole life.

But then I see the way he is looking at me, with such tenderness, and I stop.

There are moments in every girl’s life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn’t even see it coming. I had no idea.

Maybe this is why Mommy told Margot not to go to college with a boyfriend. When you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, you only want to be with that person, and you forget about everybody else, and then when the two of you break up, you’ve lost all your friends. They were off doing fun stuff without you.

People will love you or hate you for being different, but who’s to say which way it’ll go? You never know. It’s completely arbitrary.

Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer.

You could do with a little less baking and a little more living life.