752 Quotes by Jenny Han

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.

When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.

College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.