Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

452. “I know how this looks. It looks like we’re bantering, like sparks are flying between us like in witty, old romantic comedies. It looks like the start of something. But I promise you, there are no sparks. Nothing here is on fire. Archibald chuckles. “Well, Evie, this is our grandson, Xavier.” “It’s just X, Gramps,” X says. He gives Maggie a hug.”

— Nicola Yoon

453. “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

454. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

456. “God would never hang out here.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

461. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

463. “Maybe that’s why we dislike them,” she says. “The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”

— Nicola Yoon

464. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

468. “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

469. “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

470. “My heart is so full of him.”

— Nicola Yoon

471. “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

472. “The world is casually cruel.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

474. “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

475. “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

476. “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

477. “And when it’s gone, it’s like it was never there at all.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

479. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

481. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

483. “I don’t know why we lose the people we love and we’re expected to go on after we lose them. But I know that to love is human. We can’t help ourselves. The philosopher-poets say love is the answer, but it’s more than that. Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

485. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

491. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

494. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

496. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

498. “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

499. “Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon