“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
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What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day that her sister Kathrine, secretly mailed the letters and Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
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Jenny Han
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“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”
“The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.”
“Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”
“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.”
“It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.”
“I don't think relationships are just about physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips. Or any other part. (Lara Jean to Peter Kavinsky)”
“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”
“Lara Jean, promise me you won’t let her get her hooks in Daddy. He doesn’t know the first thing about dating in the twenty-first century, and she’ll just eat him alive. He needs to be with s...”