Ryen > Ryen's Quotes

“If you have a weakness, you have to work hard to defend it. You can’t be lazy about it.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Black Ice

“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

“That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.”
― 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

“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

“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

“I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because 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. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I’ve only ever loved two boys—both of them with the last name Fisher. Conrad was first, and I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know better and doesn’t want to—it’s dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Firsts were important”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there’s a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without 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

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

“I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”
― jenny han, P.S. I Still Love You

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

“It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“He looks at you a lot. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don’t know if i’ll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have… this feeling. That you’ll always be there. Here.”
― Jenny Han

“And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.”
― Jenny Han