Quotes

To All the Boy's I've Loved Before Quotes

"You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person." 

"Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore." 

"When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to."     

"Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen." 

"Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way?" 

"But the little things are what make up life."        

"You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared." 

"I don't have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn't have to be forever." 

"I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice."         

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

"I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands." 

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

"Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool." 

"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." 

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

"Relationships are incredibly amorphous. They could get back together. They could stay friends. Who's to say what will happen in the future?"

"I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings." 

"Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults."

"To belong to someone—I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine." 

"It's hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt."     

"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."    

"There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers."