Jenny Han Quotes

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.