10 Of The Best Quotes From To All The Boys 2

The romantic series To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which currently contains three books and two feature films, is one of the best modern teenage high school romances available. Its main heroine is Lara Jean Song Covey, a half-Korean, half-American girl, who leads a quiet and uncomplicated life until her younger sister, Kitty, finds the love letters Lara Jean wrote to her former crushes and she secretly sends them for her. Lara Jean eventually starts Peter Kavinsky, her classmate and one of her crushes, and in the second film, To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, she also reunites with John Ambrose, another former crush of hers. Both the film and the book contain a lot of amazing quotes, so let’s check the top 10.

10 Friends Reunite

“There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”

In the first film, Lara Jean’s former best friend and Peter’s ex-girlfriend Genevieve does her best to drive Lara Jean and Peter apart. She even goes as far as recording a video of the two of them when they’re making out and releasing it online. However, in the sequel, Lara Jean realizes that she and Gen will always be connected together when Gen arrives at their treehouse after Lara Jean asks her to come. Lara Jean comments with the above line.

9 No Half Measures

“I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.”

Lara Jean is the type of girl who may seem reserved at times, almost distant, but when she genuinely loves someone and wants to be with them, she can find the courage in herself to let them know. But she also doesn’t take it well when it looks like Peter still prefers his ex-girlfriend Gen over her. Lara Jean doesn’t want to be the second-best in Peter’s life, she wants to be the only girl for him, as she also lets him know by saying this quote.

8 Real Love

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”

Before she got together with Peter in the first film, Lara Jean preferred to only read about romance in her books, and imagine what it would be like if she and Josh, her crush at the time and also her older sister Margot’s boyfriend, finally kissed. But once she starts dating Peter, Lara Jean grows as a person, open herself more to the world around her and she eventually realizes that even though real love hurts, when she and Peter temporarily break up, it’s still worth it.

7 Enjoying The Moment

“You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.”

Lara Jean may know about love as it’s portrayed in romance books, but until she gets together with Peter, she doesn’t know how it works in real life. When she dates Peter, she experiences a lot of firsts she’s never been through before – like going on her first date when Peter takes her to a nice restaurant at the beginning of the second film. Lara-Jean does her best to enjoy every precious moment she has.

6 Importance Of Destiny

“If two people are meant to be, they’ll find their way to each other.”

When Lara Jean first starts fake-dating Peter to throw Josh off her trail and convince him she’s in love with him anymore, she has no idea that she might actually fall for Peter for real. But it does happen as the two spend more time together and begin talking about things that really matter to them, not just your average everyday stuff. Even though Lara Jean prefers to try and be pragmatic in matters of love, she still can’t deny the above quote.

5 Importance Of Family

“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”

Lara Jean is very close to her sisters Margot and Kitty and her dad Daniel, even more so since her mom died a few years back. Even once Lara Jean falls in love with Peter and begins spending more time with him, she’s still there for her family and likes to be with them and share things with them. She cares deeply about her dad and wants him to be happy, so when the time comes for Lara Jean to decide whether to support her dad in his effort to date a new woman, she does it.

4 Grow More Beautiful

“I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.”

Lara-Jean doesn’t think too much of Peter when they start fake-dating in the first film To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. She considers him a bit arrogant and too focused on his good looks as well as shallow. But the more time she spends with Peter, the more she gets to know him and she realizes later on that there’s much more to Peter than meets the eye. She finds him handsome even when she doesn’t like him too much but when she falls in love with him, she begins to see him as someone truly beautiful.

3 The One He Loves

“But you’re the most special to me because you’re the girl I love, Lara Jean.”

Lara Jean breaks up with Peter when she finds out that he lied to her about Genevieve and the fact that he knew that Genevieve was the one who had released the video of them making out. But even when they’re broken up, they still care about each other, as it becomes clear later on in the second film. Lara Jean goes to Belleview to attend the party she helped organize and she dances with John Ambrose. He kisses her but Lara Jean realizes she wants to be with Peter and runs out of Belleview – only to find Peter already waiting for her because he knows she doesn’t like to drive when it’s snowing and he wants her to get home safely. Peter then confesses his true feelings.

2 Sisters Over Friends

“You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.”

Being close to your family and having them love you and support you in return may seem like a given but it, unfortunately, doesn’t always work out that way in real life. However, Lara Jean is lucky in this area and her sisters and she are very close, even if they don’t always see eye to eye and sometimes keep things from each other, they’re still great friends – and more. Even once Margot goes to study abroad and leaves for Scotland, she’s still important for Lara Jean and the two stay in touch despite the distance that separates them.

1 Break His Heart

“You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.”

In a way, the main characters’ growth is best demonstrated by the way their roles switched from the first movie to the second. At the end of the first film, Lara Jean goes to find Peter to confess to him what he truly means to her. She writes him a letter and goes to see Peter when he’s in the lacrosse field. She reads her letter to him and they kiss and get back together. In the second film, though, Peter comes for Lara Jean when she’s at Belleview and he tells her how he truly feels by pointing out the line above. The film ends shortly afterward.

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Kath Leroy
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Kath Leroy is a writer at Screen Rant. She also publishes in a number of Czech magazines. She works as an actress and appeared in feature films, short films, as well as TV series. Kath has loved movies, TV, and literature ever since she was a child and her father first played Star Trek for her. Since she has a background in writing genre fiction and screenplays, Kath enjoys fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero films and shows above all – however, she likes to watch films of all genres.

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