Jenny Han Quotes

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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.

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I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

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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.

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We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

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Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

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I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

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Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

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When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The biggest Slurpee you can find,half cherry half Coke.Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally,dace breaks.Lots of dance breaks.

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If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

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If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

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But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

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To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

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Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

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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.

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It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

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When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

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When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

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I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

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Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

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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.

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Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

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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.

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Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

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When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

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Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

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