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Portrait of Jenny Han

Jenny Han

(1980) Writer United States

509 quotes in 787 categories

Han’s 509 snippets capture the bittersweet rhythm of adolescence, from first crushes to lasting friendships. Her tone is warm and relatable, making each line feel like a diary entry you can’t put down.

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Jenny Han is a writer from the United States, best known for The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Quick Facts About Jenny Han

Born: September 3, 1980
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Summer I Turned Pretty
Known for: The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Summer I Turned Pretty

About Jenny Han

Jenny Han is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the To All the Boys trilogy, which was adapted into a Netflix film series.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature

Quotes by Jenny Han

“They had such a good meet-cute,” I croak.”

Croak

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Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Forever

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I always know what time it is.

Always

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“BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY... THEY GET EVEN.”

Big girls

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But the little things are what make up life

Life

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“Screw you! You're a crappy best friend!!!”

Best friend

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“Nothing good happens after two a.m.”

Good

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Firsts are best because they are beginnings

Beginnings

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“You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit”

Hold

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As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.

Beach

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“Smiling, he said, “Did you know that astronomers call them interplanetary dust?”

Interplanetary

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It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

American

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“All of this love crap makes me want to puke.”

Crap

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“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”

Know

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“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

Love

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“Interplanetary dust,” I repeated, liking the feel of the words on my tongue.”

Language

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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

Age

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“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…

Brutally

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An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how…

Ends

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“We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers…

Love

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All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with…

Books

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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the…

Crush

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“How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.”

Adventure

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“Chuckling, Josh backs away. "I'll leave you to Cressida and Noel then." To his back, I call out, "For your information, it's…

Backs Away

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“When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure…

Dream

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“All night, I talked to other people. I didn't look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was…

Painfully Aware

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“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much…

Feels

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I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I…

Myself

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“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve,…

Conrad

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“Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it. Kitty: PMS? Lara: No.It's not PMS. Just because a girl…

Girl Sad

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“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…

Funny

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“The words come out of my mouth, but they don’t sound like me. I don’t sound like me. Probably because I know…

Breaking up

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“Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we’re like strangers. I’ll never have that person back, who I…

Friends

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“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…

Cute

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“I might have been a fuckup and a failure and a disappointment, but I wasn’t a liar. I did lie to Belly,…

Failure

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“He acted like he didn't hear me. "He will let you down, because that's what he does. That's who he is." For…

Jeremiah

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“I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the…

Wanted Feel

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“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes,…

Breakup

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“I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it feels like I have.…

Family relationships

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“Honey, I appreciate that so much, I really do, but it’s not just transferring that I’m worrying about. I’m worried about his…

Life

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