To All the Boys I've Loved Before Quotes

“I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don't think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips... Or any other body part.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I turn on my side and close my eyes. What must it be like, to have a boy like you so much he cries for you? And not just any boy. Josh. Our Josh.

To answer her question: yes, I think I have been in real love. Just once, though. With Josh. Our Josh.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“He drives off into the night and I'm still standing there with my fingers to my lips. Peter Kavinsky just kissed me.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It's good for you to try new things”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Just because a girl is sad, it doesn’t mean it has anything to do with PMS.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

“I keep trying to block it out, but it keeps on coming back.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Chuckling, Josh backs away. "I'll leave you to Cressida and Noel then."

To his back, I call out, "For your information, it's Nigel!”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he’ll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I’ve saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I’m done, I seal it, I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox. They’re not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don’t want to be in love anymore. They’re for good-bye. Because after I write my letter, I’m no longer consumed by my all-consuming love. I can eat my cereal and not wonder if he likes bananas over his Cheerios too; I can sing along to love songs and not be singing them to him. If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free. Or at least they’re supposed to.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“If you make Josh’s dumb white- chocolate cranberry cookies and not my fruitcake ones, it’s over.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“We are sisters, and there's nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I'm standing there in the open door and the thought flies in my head, so quick, so unexpected, I can't stop myself from thinking it: If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I need peace," I say, closing my eyes. "I need to replenish myself with peace.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Quit it," Kitty warns. "We're not getting a cat. Cats are blah. They're also very manipulative”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“There's nothing crazier than a Christmas tree all lit up.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“He doesn't know it, but when Peter talks about Genevieve, he gets a certain softness in his face. It's tenderness mixed with impatience. And something else. Love. Peter can protest all he wants, but I know he still loves her.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn't for me.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It's probably because you were each other's firsts. That's why you can't let each other go. I've heard that's how it is with firsts, especially with guys.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You only like guys you don’t have a shot with, because you’re scared. What are you so scared of?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Josh: But colored lights are whimsical. I mean they're nostalgic

Lara Jean: Whimsical, Josh?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“He deserves background music, he looks so good.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Im sure he was wearing it ironically. Besides, wearing an ascot doesn't make someone gay."I give him a look like 'Wow, so homophobic'.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Margot? Sad?" Chris picks at her nails. "Margot doesn't have normal human emotions like the rest of us.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“They’re not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don’t want to be in love anymore. They’re for good-bye. Because after I write my letter, I’m no longer consumed by my all-consuming love.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before