01UndatedActually, judging by Pinterest alone, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful library. Just not people Peter knows. He thinks I'm so quirky. I'm not planning on being the one to break the news to him that I'm actually not that quirky, that in fact lots of people like to stay home and bake cookies and scrapbook and hang out in libraries. Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still. 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 ↗
02UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedLara Jean, why do you have to remember every little thing? It's not healthy.Jenny Han / quote ↗
04UndatedSometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.Jenny Han / quote ↗
05UndatedThe words come out of my mouth, but they don’t sound like me. I don’t sound like me. Probably because I know it’s all lies. But I can see that they’re lies that Reeve believes. He swallows them whole. His eyes go blank. Empty. He completely shuts down.Jenny Han / quote ↗
06UndatedAnd for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.Jenny Han / quote ↗
08UndatedHe took a step closer. "I don't know if I'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have this... feeling. That you'll always be there. Here." Conrad clawed at his heart and then dropped his hand.Jenny Han / quote ↗
09UndatedAn eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.Jenny Han / quote ↗
10UndatedAching 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.Jenny Han / quote ↗
12UndatedI’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it feels like I have. It’s like . . . it’s like there’s only ever been Peter. Like everyone else that came before him, they were all to prepare me for this. 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. And Peter does. He sees me, and I see him.Jenny Han / quote ↗
13UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedIf people knew you, they would love you." He sounds matter-of-fact.Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar.Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.Jenny Han / quote ↗
15UndatedJosh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.Jenny Han / quote ↗
16UndatedI’m clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I’m hurting now, he’ll hurt ten times worse. That’s the only thing that keeps me going.Jenny Han / quote ↗
18UndatedI'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.Jenny Han / quote ↗
19UndatedFor 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.Jenny Han / quote ↗
21UndatedI think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.Jenny Han / quote ↗
22UndatedIt 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 ↗
23UndatedI 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.Jenny Han / quote ↗
