Jenny Han - To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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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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Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.

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Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

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

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

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