"Lara Jean, why do you have to remember every little thing? It's not healthy."

"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."

"When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground."

"There have been other girls. But they weren't her."

"There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love."

"Don't marry him. Don't be with him. Be with me."

"I wonder, though... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back. Would it be scary only for a second or two, or would it be scary the whole time? What if I didn't like it at all? Or what if I liked it too much? It's a lot to think about."

"The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you."

"Josh 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."

"I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard."

"You were gullible,' he said. And then, 'When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you'd get X-ray vision. And you believed me. You believed everything I said.' I did. I really did. I believed him when he said that carrots could give me X-ray vision. I believed him when he told me that he'd never cared about me. And then, later that night, when he tried to take it back, I guess I believed him again. Now I didn't know what to believe. I just knew I didn't believe in him anymore."

"It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad."

"I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what."

"I'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."

"But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing."

"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."

"It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try."

"I 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."

"My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen."

"I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on."

"But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?"

"Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you're the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You're the one people whisper about. I've seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!"

"It's the imperfections that make things beautiful."

"I love Jere more than anybody. He's my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too. His voice broke.'Don't marry him. Don't be with him. Be with me."

"Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?"

"It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying."

"Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them,that's how they really are. It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing."

"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out 'tree hunting. That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word 'trespassing."

"If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other."

"Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought,Come back. Be the you I love and remember."

"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."

"Actually, 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."

"If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms."

"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 number, and I answer it eagerly.'I love you, too,' I say.There is surprised silence on the other end, then a little laugh to cover it up. 'Hi, Lara Jean. This is Peter's mom."

"Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? 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 and you've just had your heart brutally broken."

"The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?"

"The 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."

"But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!Automatically I say, 'Don't say 'frig.'S'Not one frigging word, Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. 'It all happened really fast, he offers. 'There was barely time to tell anybody-'Was I talking to you? Kitty snaps. 'No, I don't think so. I was talking to my sister.Peter's eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face."

"I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant."

"I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter."

"In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe."

"My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful."

"You 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."

"If 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."

"Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always."