Cecil Listana > Cecil's Quotes

“Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit. That's why you can't save it all up like that.

Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they’d been there all along. All that time. I had to face it. He was part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write in my letter, I'm not longer consumed by my all-consuming love...My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever. Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“It was over before I even had a chance.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.”
― jenny han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“A life of mediocrity is a waste of a life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Just because you blocked the memory of me out of your mind doesn't mean you blocked the memory of me out of your heart”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I...will never...regret you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity