Jenny Han is an American author of young adult fiction. She wrote The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy and the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series.
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
I think 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.
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
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer
Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.
I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
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.
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.
You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.
Here's something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don't always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.
When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.
Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
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.
It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.