“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important.
At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweet-hearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then?
I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it's all part of being in love.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I’m a person who saves things. I’ll hold on forever. *”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“There's an openness to his face, an innocence—a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“He texts back: I love you.
I'm starting to text back, I love you, too, when my phone rings. It's Peter's house number, and I answer it eagerly.
"I love you, too," I say.
There is surprised silence on the other end, then a little laugh to cover it up. "Hi, Lara Jean. This is Peter's mom.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Nothing good happens after two a.m. Unless you happen to be a fan of watching people play flip cup for hours on end. Not me. No, I’d much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful library.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Sometimes I wish we’d met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“But then I think, no, I wouldn’t give up twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen with Peter for the world.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“But still I hope, because I can’t help but hope. *”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“We’re still here. It’s not the future yet. *”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“What’s a meet-cute?” Peter’s lying on his side now, his head propped up on his elbow. He looks so adorable I could pinch his cheeks, but I refrain from saying so. His head is big enough as it is. “A meet-cute is when the hero and heroine meet for the very first time, and it’s always in a charming way. It’s how you know they’re going to end up together. The cuter the better.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“But then I see the way he is looking at me, with such tenderness, and I stop.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn’t want to leave? What then? But wouldn’t it be great if I loved it? Isn’t that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness? I”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I lean over to him and put my palms on his smooth cheeks. “That’s how I know you’re still a boy. Because you’re so sure.” He”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
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“Men who live by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or purposes of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the single act of slaveholding voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates - the common enemies of God and of all mankind.”
― Frederick Douglass, quote from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”
― Francis Bacon, quote from Essays
“Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me
Belly to belly and knee to knee
Who’ll look into my hooded eye
Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Collected Poems 1947-1997
“Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
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