“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?” Fiercely he says, “What if we do? If we’re so guarded, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“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, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Sometimes I like you so much I can’t stand it. It fills up inside me, all the way to the brim, and I feel like I could overflow. I like you so much I don’t know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I’m going to see you again. And then, when you look at me the way you do, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either.” John looks over at me, his gaze steady. “But one day maybe it will be.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Us," Peter corrects. "I did it for us." He links our fingers together. "It's you and me, kid.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Your body is yours to protect and to enjoy.” She raises both eyebrows at me meaningfully. “Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely. Every man that ever got to touch me was afforded an honor. A privilege.” Stormy waves her hand over me. “All this? It’s a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.”
“I had no idea you were such a feminist,” I say.
“Feminist?” Stormy makes a disgusted sound in her throat. “I’m no feminist. Really, Lara Jean!”
“Stormy, don’t get worked up about it. All it means is that you believe men and women are equal, and should have equal rights.”
“I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it. Don’t forget any of the things I just told you.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Don’t let it happen to you, Lara Jean. Don’t get too serious to where things can’t go back. Be in love with Peter if you want, but be careful with your heart. Things feel like they’ll be forever, but they aren’t. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” —MARGERY WILLIAMS”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“...When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“When it’s time to leave, we put on our shoes, kiss Daddy good-bye, and tumble out the front door. Waiting for us on the street in front of his car is Peter with a bouquet of cellophane-wrapped pink carnations. “Happy birthday, kid,” he says. Kitty’s eyes bulge. “Are those for me?” He laughs. “Who else would they be for? Hurry and get in the car.” Kitty turns to me, her eyes bright, her smile as wide as her face. I’m smiling too. “Are you coming too, Lara Jean?” I shake my head. “No, there’s only room for two.” “You’re my only girl today, kid,” Peter says, and Kitty runs to him and snatches the flowers out of his hand. Gallantly, he opens the door for her. He shuts it and turns and winks at me. “Don’t be jealous, Covey.” I’ve never liked him more than in this moment.”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve . . . I deserve to be someone's number one girl."
"You are."
"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”
― Jenny Han, quote from P.S. I Still Love You
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“I think every relationship is actually a million relationships.”
― Becky Albertalli, quote from The Upside of Unrequited
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Norvegų giria
“So, thought Peace, there was a wall around his heart and she wondered whether she should hoist up her skirt and scale that wall, but she knew she didn’t have the right shoes on for that sort of climb because hers were too sensible for a man like Drake.”
― Sarah Winman, quote from A Year of Marvellous Ways
“In many ways, the partition of India was the inevitable result of three centuries of Britain’s divide-and-rule policy. As the events of the Indian Revolt demonstrated, the British believed that the best way to curb nationalist sentiment was to classify the indigenous population not as Indians, but as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, etc. The categorization and separation of native peoples was a common tactic for maintaining colonial control over territories whose national boundaries had been arbitrarily drawn with little consideration for the ethnic, cultural, or religious makeup of the local inhabitants. The French went to great lengths to cultivate class divisions in Algeria, the Belgians promoted tribal factionalism in Rwanda, and the British fostered sectarian schisms in Iraq, all in a futile attempt to minimize nationalist tendencies and stymie united calls for independence. No wonder, then, that when the colonialists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.”
― Reza Aslan, quote from No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.”
― Joan Didion, quote from Blue Nights
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