Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.”

— Nicola Yoon

452. “I’m desperate to prevent her tears, but not because I’m noble or anything. 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, and I have no intention of crying in front of the cute girl whose headphones I just broke.”

— Nicola Yoon

453. “He’s the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.”

— Nicola Yoon

454. “Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me.”

— Nicola Yoon

455. “I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body.”

— Nicola Yoon

456. “Sometimes I feel like we’re on opposite sides of a soundproofed glass wall. We can see each other but we can’t hear each other.”

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457. “I want things that I can name, and some things that I can’t. I want this one moment to last forever, but I don’t want to miss all the other moments to come. I want our entire future together, but I want it here and now.”

— Nicola Yoon

458. “My body burns where he doesn’t touch, and burns where he does.”

— Nicola Yoon

459. “Don’t fall in love with me Daniel.”

— Nicola Yoon

460. “All the things that have happened to him, even the bad, have happened for a reason.”

— Nicola Yoon

461. “My heart’s been on my sleeve all day, and it’s pretty bruised up right now.”

— Nicola Yoon

462. “How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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464. “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

465. “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

466. “But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.”

— Nicola Yoon

467. “Here’s what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”

— Nicola Yoon

468. “It’s one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make to lie to yourself.”

— Nicola Yoon

469. “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

470. “The world is casually cruel.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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472. “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

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

478. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

485. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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488. “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

489. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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491. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

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

— Nicola Yoon

493. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

495. “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

496. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

498. “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

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

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

— Nicola Yoon