Lara Jean Quotes

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Peter puts one arm around my waist, pulls me in, and, looking down at me, he says fiercely, "Neither of us wants to break up. So why should we? Because of some shit my mom said? Because your sister did it that way? You're not the same as your sister, Lra Jean. We're not the same as Margot and Sanderson or anybody else. We're you and me. And yeah, it's gonna be hard. But Lara Jean, I've never feel for another girl what I feel for you." He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have, and I have never loved him more than at this very moment.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“are you planning on breaking my heart, covey?”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“He groans. “You’ve gotta give me something here, Lara Jean. I have a reputation to uphold. None of my friends will believe I suddenly turned into a monk to date you.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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. That’s why you can’t save it all up like that. Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life. Like a month ago when Daddy slipped on a banana peel, a literal banana peel that Kitty had dropped on the kitchen floor. Kitty and I laughed for ages. I should have e-mailed Margot about it right away; I should have taken a picture of the banana peel. Now everything feels like you had to be there and oh never mind, I guess it’s not that funny.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Chris gives me a new lipstick: red for when I want to be bad, she says.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Peter’s gone away on his training weekend. It’s only been one day and I’m already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July. Peter is my cocoa in a cup, my red mittens, my Christmas morning feeling.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“We’re at a stoplight when Peter suddenly sits up straight and says, “Oh, shit! The Epsteins!” I was halfway asleep. My eyes fly open and I yell, “Where? Where?” “Red SUV! Two cars ahead on the right.” I crane my neck to look. They are a gray-haired couple, maybe in their sixties or seventies. It’s hard to tell from this far
away. As soon as the light turns green, Peter guns it and drives up on the shoulder. I scream out, “Go go go!” and then we’re flying past the Epsteins. My heart is racing out of control, I can’t help but lean my head out the
window and scream because it’s such a thrill. My hair whips in the wind and I know it’s going to be a tangled mess, but I couldn’t care less. “Yahhh!” I scream. “You’re crazy,” Peter says, pulling me back in by the hem of my shirt.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Hmm” is all Margot says, and the skeptical look on her face makes me want to x her right off the screen.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The clouds in his face clear away instantly, and he is sunny and bright again.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I know most sisters don't get along, but I'm closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I can feel tears and panic building up inside me. If she asks me another question, it will be too much, and I'll cry.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“She hot-potatoes the phone to me.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“With his fair hair and milky skin and rosy cheeks, he looks like he could be an English farmer’s son. But he’s slim, so maybe the sensitive farmer’s son who steals away to the barn to read.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Peter still sits in front of me in chemistry. I didn't know you could miss someone even more acutely when they're a few feet away. Maybe it's because he doesn't look at me, not even once. I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so ... familiar to me. And now he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse. 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; maye that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better. It's working, barely. Barely is enough for now.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Peter still sits in front of me in chemistry. I didn't know you could miss someone even more acutely when they're only a few feet away. Maybe it's because he doesn't look at me, not even once. I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so ... familiar to me. And now he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse. 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. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better. It's working, barely. Barely is enough for now”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I put my hand to his chest, over his heart. I can feel it beating. I let my hand fall away. His heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break.
So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that. If Kitty had never sent those letters, if I hadn't gone to the hot tub that night, it might've been him and Gen. But she did sent those letters, and I did go out there. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.
I know now that I don't want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all you have to risk it all.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Margot is a good girl, and I guess Kitty and I have followed her lead. I've never cheated or gotten drunk or smoked a cigarette or even had a boyfriend.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“He's a really good Dad. And he tries hard. He doesn't always understand us, but he tries, and that's the important thing.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Even though Margot isn't a loud person, it feels quiet at home. Empty, somehow.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I wish I'd made more friends. If I had more friends, maybe ...”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“That story made me feel like I knew you at least a little bit. But I don’t know you, and I wish I did.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“My big sister knows how to hurt me best.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Margot’s off shopping for new boots with her friend Casey, Daddy’s at work, and Kitty and I are lazing about watching TV when my phone buzzes next to me. It’s a text from Peter. "Movie tonight?" I text back
yes, exclamation point. Then I delete the exclamation point for sounding too eager. Though without the exclamation point, the yes seems completely unenthused. I settle on a smiley face and press send before I can
obsess over it further.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“After dinner I text Chris to see if she wants to come over, but she doesn't text back. She's probably out with one of the guys she hooks up my scrapbooking. with. Which is fine. I should catch up on I was hoping to be done with Margot's scrapbook before she left for college, but as anyone who's ever scrapbooked
knows, Rome wasn't built in a day. You could spend a year or more working on one scrapbook. I've got Motown girl-group music playing, and my sup plies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I've cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrap book has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection