752 Quotes by Jenny Han

Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.

What I really want to say is Peter will always pick Lara Jean over Genevieve.

I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.

She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.

Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we’re like strangers. I’ll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.” I feel a pinch in my heart. When she says it that way, it’s so sad. “You could become friends again, after some time has passed.” But it wouldn’t be the same, I know that. You’d always be mourning.

In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe.

You can chalk up things to coincide so many times before you have to face the truth.

All I know is that every minute without him feels interminably long, like I’m waiting, just waiting for him to come back to me.

I take a deep breath. “Okay. I can live with that. I mean, who cares about a hot makeout, right? That’s just part of life, right? And you can barely even see my face? You’d have to really know me to know it was me. My full name isn’t on here anywhere, just Lara Jean. There must be a ton of Lara Jeans, right? Right?” Margot.