Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A japanese phrase “koi no yokan”: It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

— Nicola Yoon

2. “La vida es un regalo; no te olvides de vivirla.”

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3. “Sometimes people tell you things by not telling you things.”

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4. “The biggest risk in life is not taking one.”

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5. “Teenagers are the same all over. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.”

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6. “If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I’d ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I’d be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.”

— Nicola Yoon

7. “Growing up and seeing your parents’ flaws is like losing your religion. I don’t believe in God anymore. I don’t believe in my father either.”

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8. “In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”

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9. “We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”

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10. “I wish I still felt that way. Growing up and seeing your parents’ flaws is like losing your religion.”

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11. “We’re kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.”

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12. “Maybe I’m holding out hope that one day, someday, things will change.”

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13. “Rejection was like sandpaper. His skin sloughed away under its constant onslaught. After a while, Samuel wasn’t sure which would last long: himself or his dreams.”

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14. “Maybe I should give up. I don’t know why I haven’t yet. The universe is clearly trying to save me from myself. I bet if I looked for signs about parting ways, I would find them.”

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15. “Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.”

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16. “I didn’t know you this morning, and now I don’t remember not knowing you.”

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17. “Love is worth everything, everything.”

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18. “There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

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19. “Who cares what you want? The only thing that matters is what is good for you. Your mother and I ONLY care about what is good for you. You go to school, you become a doctor, you be successful. Then you never have to work in a store like this. Then you have money and respect, and all the things you want.”

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20. “Do you remember when we read The Little Prince together for the first time? I was so upset that he died in the end. I didn’t understand how he could choose death just so he could get back to his rose. I think I understand it now. He wasn’t choosing to die. His rose was his whole life. Without her, he wasn’t really alive.”

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21. “Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being rule by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true.”

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22. “You don’t exist if no one can see you.”

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23. “Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to.”

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24. “These days when Patricia looks at her daughter, she doesn’t see as much of herself reflected back as before, and it hurts. But of course, all teenagers do this. All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart.”

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25. “You can’t predict the future. It turns out that you can’t predict the past either. Time moves in both directions – forward and backward – and what happens here and now changes them both.”

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26. “Am I making a mistake? Maybe. But it’s mine to make.”

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27. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”

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28. “Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you could just change one thing?”

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29. “Why was the boy surprised to find celery growing out of his ears?”

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30. “A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”

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31. “My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.”

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32. “I know there’s no such thing as meant-to-be, and yet here I am wondering if maybe I’ve been wrong.”

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33. “Safety is not everything. There’s more to life than being alive.”

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34. “The thing about falling is you don’t have any control on your way down.”

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35. “According to multiverse theory, every version of our past and future histories exists, just in an alternate universe. For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. This means that for every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice. In this way we get to live multiple lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

36. “Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her.”

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37. “We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ in terms of sheer beauty. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”

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38. “I am made. I am unmade.”

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39. “I am not lonely, Mom,” I snap. “I am alone. Those are different things.”

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40. “Why would you throw your future away for temporary things that you only want right now?”

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41. “People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”

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42. “He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star. And I’m not a satellite. I’m space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him.”

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43. “Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things.”

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44. “He said that love and dark matter were the same – the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart.”

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45. “Dreaming is a luxury and not everyone has it.”

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46. “Once upon a time there was a girl whose entire life was a lie.”

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47. “I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don’t want to love him. I really don’t. As strategies go, it’s not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”

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48. “If the person who’s meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then what is there to believe in?”

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49. “Even though I hate poetry, a poem I read for English class pops into my head. “Hope” is the thing with feathers. I understand concretely what that means now. Something inside my chest wants to fly out, wants to sing and laugh and dance with relief. I.”

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50. “I’m not scared I won’t survive the pain. I’m scared the pain will never end and I’ll have to live with it forever. The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.”

— Nicola Yoon