752 Quotes by Jenny Han

Stormy, can you believe we were ever so young?

The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I’d ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.

It might be my imagination, but I think I hear his heart beating. His is beating and mine feels like it’s breaking.

It’s funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are.

I didn’t have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.

I know Josh and I will mend things, because we’re neighbors, and that’s how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own. But not so for Margot and Josh, with her so far away. If they don’t talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they’ll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

Baking calms me; it’s stabilizing. It’s what I do when I don’t want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you – you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It’s like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

Things feel like they’ll be forever, but they aren’t. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.

Let’s let people think we’re a couple.