Vanessa > Vanessa's Quotes

“Crying only makes your problems last longer.”
― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

“Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.”
― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.”
― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

“It helps sometimes to dwell on the good memories. They remind you that happiness does exist, though it may not seem that way now.”
― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

“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

“I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity

-Belly Conklin-”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without 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

“How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?”
― Jenny Han

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Some girls are pretty, and it’s like they were destined for it. They were meant to be pretty, and as for the rest of us, well, we get to exist on the outer edges of life. It’s like moths. They’re the same as butterflies, aren’t they? They’re just gray. They can’t help being gray, they just are. But butterflies, they’re a million different colors, yellow and emerald and cerulean blue. They’re pretty. Who’d dare kill a butterfly? I don’t know of a single soul who’d lift a finger against a butterfly. But most anybody would swat at a moth like it was nothing, and all because it isn’t pretty. Doesn’t seem fair, not at all.”
― Jenny Han, Shug

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.”
― Jenny Han

“It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know better and doesn’t want to—it’s dizzy and foolish and fierce.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“It's never been a perfect world. It's never going to be. It's going to be hard and scary, and if you're lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves

“I want to sleep, I want dreams to pull me from this world and make me forget. To stop the memories from swirling around me. To put an end to this ache that consumes me.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth