For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.

—Jenny Han in The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Jenny Han is an American author of young adult fiction and children's fiction. She is best known for writing the To All the Boys series and The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which were adapted into a film series and TV series, respectively.

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

—Jenny Han in We'll Always Have Summer

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I don't want to forget any of this. The way he's looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It's the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

—Annie Dillard

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Summer does something to the brain. It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summer People

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A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.