Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I decide I like people who are generous with their laughter.”

— Nicola Yoon

452. “If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”

— Nicola Yoon

453. “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

454. “It’s soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together.”

— Nicola Yoon

455. “When I first started with you I thought it was only a matter of time before depression would take you over. And there was that one summer when it came close, but it didn’t happen. Every day you get up and learn something new. Every day you find something to be happy about. Every single day you have a smile for me.”

— Nicola Yoon

456. “Love always changes everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

457. “The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.”

— Nicola Yoon

458. “Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

460. “I feel as if I’ve never been touched before.”

— Nicola Yoon

461. “On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it’s locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I’m looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.”

— Nicola Yoon

462. “I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.”

— Nicola Yoon

463. “Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they’re the only thing the Internet is good for.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

465. “Life is a gift. Am I wasting mine?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

467. “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

468. “It amazes me that people spend their entire days inside places like this doing things they don’t love for people they don’t like.”

— Nicola Yoon

469. “My plan is to get us to the roof so that we can make out in privacy.”

— Nicola Yoon

470. “Okay,” I say. “I’m leaving now.” He raises a single eyebrow and I almost laugh. For a second, I feel like I’m a character in one of my old romance books. Raising a single eyebrow is such a Classic Romance Guy Characteristic.”

— Nicola Yoon

471. “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

472. “She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”

— Nicola Yoon

473. “I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.”

— Nicola Yoon

474. “You said that love couldn’t kill me.” “Yes, but it might kill your mother.” She manages a small smile.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

476. “Los amores sin futuro forman parte de la vida.- Carla.”

— Nicola Yoon

477. “This country can’t have everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

478. “I’m not sure what that means in this context. Be careful because I may drown? Be careful because I may get sick? Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too? Because there’s no denying it now. I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

480. “Carla raises a single questioning eyebrow at me. I lower two nonanswering eyebrows back at her.”

— Nicola Yoon

481. “From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.”

— Nicola Yoon

482. “She knew what would happen. There was always going to be someone else. Someone who isn’t sick.”

— Nicola Yoon

483. “I laugh. “How much thinking about this have you been doing?” “A fair amount,” he says, and kisses me again, and it’s more than good. It’s excellent. Stupendous. Phenomenal. Prodigious. Every synonym for excellent ever conceived.”

— Nicola Yoon

484. “But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

— Nicola Yoon

485. “We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”

— Nicola Yoon

486. “One thing I’ll know for sure: love can last forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

487. “I’ve wanted to tell her about him for so long, but now I’m not sure where to begin. My heart is so full of him.”

— Nicola Yoon

488. “I almost wish I hadn’t met him. How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who Reads?”

— Nicola Yoon

489. “It takes three years Natasha’s natural hair to grow in fully. She doesn’t do it to make a political statement. In fact, she liked having her hair straight. In the future, she may mike it straight again. She does it because she wants to try something new. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”

— Nicola Yoon

490. “Do you want a girlfriend or are you one of those guys who likes to date around?” “I’m just waiting for the right one to come along,” he says.”

— Nicola Yoon

491. “Maya Angelou wrote in Human Family, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

— Nicola Yoon

492. “L’amore apre le porte del mondo.”

— Nicola Yoon

493. “Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

494. “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

495. “They tried to stop me. They said it wasn’t worth my life, but I said that it was my life, and it was up to me to decide what it was worth. I said I was going to go and either I was going to die or I was going to get a better life.”

— Nicola Yoon

496. “Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

498. “Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s.”

— Nicola Yoon

499. “People feel so much. Love is so big and it leaves behind a crater. Even when it’s wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

500. “Well, I think there’s something wrong with everyone, don’t you?”

— Nicola Yoon