Jenny Han Quotes

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.