Jenny Han Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
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“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
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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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“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
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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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“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”
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“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.”
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“It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.”
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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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“He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”
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“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.”
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“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.It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”
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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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“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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“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
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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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“You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.”
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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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“When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.”
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“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”
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“Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.”
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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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“Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.”
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“Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults.”
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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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“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
-- Jenny Han
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