Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The thing about my mom’s Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and me.” – Olly Bright.”

— Nicola Yoon

452. “The world is casually cruel.”

— Nicola Yoon

453. “Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description.”

— Nicola Yoon

454. “We both stop walking to stare up at it. The engine temporarily blots out all other sound. “Paris would be nice,” I say after it’s gone. “Pretty happy right where I am,” he says. I don’t know when he stopped looking up at the sky and started looking at me instead.”

— Nicola Yoon

455. “In a peripheral way, Jasmyn has always suspected that the self-care industry was a scam gone too far. Now, she’s sure of it. The world would be a better place if people spent more time taking care of one another instead of just taking care of themselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

456. “The other, secret thing that I don’t say to anyone is this: I’m not sure I’m capable of love. Even temporarily.”

— Nicola Yoon

457. “It’s so we remember to remember.”

— Nicola Yoon

458. “For whatever reason, there are people that you want to tell your weird, secret thoughts to. You want to show them your pimples and tell them about your braces. You want them to love you because of those things, not in spite of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

459. “There’s more to life than being alive.”

— Nicola Yoon

460. “Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.”

— Nicola Yoon

461. “But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.”

— Nicola Yoon

462. “It’s not a competition if one person can’t even show up for the event.”

— Nicola Yoon

463. “I step up to the platform that it sits on and trail my hands across it. The surface is metal-cold and pockmarked from thousands of tiny impacts. I close my eyes, let my fingers dip in and out of the divots. It’s hard to believe that this hunk of iron is from outer space.”

— Nicola Yoon

464. “How can he be so okay with showing off his heart?”

— Nicola Yoon

465. “If everybody thought about the odds, there’d be no rock stars in the first place” -Evie.”

— Nicola Yoon

466. “You can be cynical all you want, but many a life can be saved by poetry.”

— Nicola Yoon

467. “Area Teen Pretty Sure Day Can’t Get Worse, Is Wrong About That.”

— Nicola Yoon

468. “Besides, I try not to want things I can’t have.”

— Nicola Yoon

469. “Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I’m being reassured with every breath that I’m more than just alive. I’m living.”

— Nicola Yoon

470. “But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

— Nicola Yoon

471. “I’m having trouble thinking and looking at her at the same time.”

— Nicola Yoon

472. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

473. “Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

474. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

— Nicola Yoon

475. “We can’t always get what we want.”

— Nicola Yoon

476. “Her backpack’s in her lap and she’s hugging it to her chest like it might get up and walk away at any second.”

— Nicola Yoon

477. “Maybe I won’t get sick,” I whisper. “That’s right,” she says, and hope spreads through me like a virus.”

— Nicola Yoon

478. “I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed.”

— Nicola Yoon

479. “After we had our daughter, my worries grew exponentially. My heart no longer lives inside my body. My heart goes to preschool every day. My heart goes to work every day. It’s a hard thing to get used to.”

— Nicola Yoon

480. “America, the family name is called the last name. Dae Hyun said it showed that Americans think the individual is more important than the family.”

— Nicola Yoon

481. “That and the fact that my extreme like for her is clearly unrequited. And love is not love if it’s not requited, right?”

— Nicola Yoon

482. “Do you girls really find it so easy to lie to your mamas?”

— Nicola Yoon

483. “I think we’re all connected, everyone on earth.”

— Nicola Yoon

484. “She’s upset with the change she didn’t see coming.”

— Nicola Yoon

485. “Nothing is ever universal.”

— Nicola Yoon

486. “She wishes she could slide her fingertips along the surfaces, memorizing textures and letting the artifacts of other people’s live seep into her.”

— Nicola Yoon

487. “The moon and the stars are involved. I’m certain of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

488. “Maybe that’s why Daniel wants to be a poet. So he can find the right words.”

— Nicola Yoon

489. “I decide I like people who are generous with their laughter.”

— Nicola Yoon

490. “The smile he gives me is worth living for.”

— Nicola Yoon

491. “It doesn’t matter what she looks like. It doesn’t matter if she’s long or short legged. It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. It doesn’t matter if she’s pretty or not. It matters that she feels the sun on her skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

492. “I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying.”

— Nicola Yoon

493. “You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

494. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I have to get to him. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have to protect him.”

— Nicola Yoon

495. “During the final minute, hurt settles into their bones. It colonizes their bodies, spreads to their tissue and muscles and blood and cells.”

— Nicola Yoon

496. “Is it always like that?” I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It’s never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.”

— Nicola Yoon

497. “I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

498. “I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential. If I could take it apart and understand it then maybe I could make just exactly the right change.”

— Nicola Yoon

499. “Separation is not fatal.”

— Nicola Yoon

500. “It’s not hair dye being sold in these bottles, it’s happiness.”

— Nicola Yoon