“I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”
Jenny Han“Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.”
Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You“I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.”
Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are.”
Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”
Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”
Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You“When you lose someone and it hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”
Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You“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.”
Jenny Han“It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”
Jenny Han“I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again.”
Jenny Han