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Jenny Han
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 3
Novelist
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Richmond
Virginia
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Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
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In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.
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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.
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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.
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Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer
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Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
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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 all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.
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You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.
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I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to-it's dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.
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It's scary how easy promises were broken.
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When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
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Aching 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.
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Here's something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don't always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.
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When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.
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There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
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For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.
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When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?
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Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?
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He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
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You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.
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