The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection Quotes

“Wanna hear something funny?"
"What?"
"I think I started liking you.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“he’s never looked at another girl quite like this. And then 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, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“Maybe it was fate. Maybe this was all supposed to happen just like this, because...because it was always gonna be you and me.'

I say the first thing that comes to mind. 'No, it wasn't.' And I realize it's true.

This is the moment I realize I don't love him, that I haven't for a while. That maybe I never did. Because he's right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference." (257)”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“Puedo sentir las lágrimas tan cerca, que si rompo mi concentración por un segundo, si vacilo, voy a llorar y haré que todo empeore.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit. That’s why you can’t save it all up like that.
Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life. Like a month ago when Daddy slipped on a banana peel, a literal banana peel that Kitty had dropped on the kitchen floor. Kitty and I laughed for ages. I should have e-mailed Margot about it right away; I should have taken a picture of the banana peel. Now everything feels like you had to be there and oh never mind, I guess it’s not that funny.
Is this how people lose touch? I didn’t think that could happen with sisters. Maybe with other people, but never us. Before Margot left, I knew what she was thinking without having to ask; I knew everything about her. Not anymore. I don’t know what the view looks like outside her window, or if she still wakes up early every morning to have a real breakfast or if maybe now that she’s at college she likes to go out late and sleep in late. I don’t know if she prefers Scottish boys to American boys now, or if her roommate snores. All I know is she likes her classes and she’s been to visit London once. So basically I know nothing.
And so does she.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“He has the look of a Handsome Boy from a different time. He could be a dashing World War I soldier, handsome enough for a girl to wait years for him to come back from war, so handsome she could wait forever.
He could be wearing a red letterman’s jacket, driving around in a Corvette with the top down, one arm on the steering wheel, on his way to pick up his girl for the sock hop. Peter’s kind of wholesome good looks feel more like yesterday than today. There’s just something about him girls like.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“C'est effrayant quand ça devient réel. C'est une chose d'avoir des sentiments pour quelqu'un. C'en est une autre d'avoir la personne en face. De gérer ses attentes. Ses envies.”
― Jenny Han, Para todos os garotos que já amei

“And then people's moms and dads were picking them up, and it was so anticlimactic after all that planning and anticipation. It was disappointing for me, not because I liked anyone, but because I liked romance and drama and I was hoping something exciting would happen to someone.”
― Jenny Han, T͏o A͏ll the B͏oy͏s I͏'ve L͏ov͏ed Before C͏ol͏lec͏tion 3 B͏ooks S͏er͏ies S͏pec͏ial K͏in͏dle E͏dit͏ion

“Peter still sits in front of me in chemistry. I didn't know you could miss someone even more acutely when they're only a few feet away. Maybe it's because he doesn't look at me, not even once. I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so . . . familiar to me. And now he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse. For 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. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better. It's working, barely. Barely is enough for now.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“After dinner I text Chris to see if she wants to come over, but she doesn't text back. She's probably out with one of the guys she hooks up my scrapbooking. with. Which is fine. I should catch up on I was hoping to be done with Margot's scrapbook before she left for college, but as anyone who's ever scrapbooked
knows, Rome wasn't built in a day. You could spend a year or more working on one scrapbook. I've got Motown girl-group music playing, and my sup plies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I've cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrap book has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“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 sweethearts? 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, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt … it’s all a part of being in love.”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“broken up?” I”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“Tell me what’s going on with you and Peter.”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“Not the kind of fights you can’t take back”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“But that’s just inescapable, right? When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“you thank you!” According to Daddy, he picked the puppy up from the animal shelter”
― Jenny Han, To All The Boys I've Loved Before

“I was hoping to be done with Margot's scrapbook before she left for college, but as anyone who's ever scrapbooked knows, Rome wasn't built in a day. You could spend a year or more working on a scrapbook.

I've got Motown girl-group music playing, and my supplies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I've cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrapbook has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“Goodbye doesn't have to be forever.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“Podría ser un gallardo soldado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo suficientemente guapo para que una chica esperara años por su regreso de la guerra, tan atractivo que ella podría esperar por siempre.”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection

“What is it with girls and rain?”
― Jenny Han, The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Collection