Summer W. > Summer's Quotes

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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

“When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it, I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

“I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Peter smiles, and ugh, it's annoying how handsome he is.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It's kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted, isn't it?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want... life to start happening. I want to fall in love and want a boy to fall in love with me back -Lara Jean”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kind of things.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“We can still talk to each other,” I say. “Nothing’s changed.” That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever told him, even bigger than the lie about my so-called dead twin Marcella. Until a couple of years ago Josh thought I had a twin sister named Marcella who died of leukemia.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I give him a strange look. Just a second ago he was grousing, and now he's happy as a clam. I don't get boys.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“My favourite food is cake.
What kind of cake?
It doesn't matter. All cake.”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

“It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“not the kind of girl to break up and get back together on a whim; once she's decided something, that's it. There's no waffling, no regrets. It's like she said: when she's done, she's just done.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“good-bye doesn't have to be forever”
― 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. - Lara Jean”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It's good for you to try new things”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Ever since I got your letter . . . I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I thought I was over him. When I wrote my letter, when I said my goodbyes, I mean it, I swear I did. It wasn´t even that hard, not really.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Just because a girl is sad, it doesn’t mean it has anything to do with PMS.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before