Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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

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

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453. “It’s at least thirty seconds before everyone puts back on his or her protective I’m-on-a-train-filled-with-strangers face. I wonder if that was the dancers’ intention – to get us all to connect just for a moment.”

— Nicola Yoon

454. “He turns and stares down the street like there’s something out there he’s been hoping to see. “People don’t come back, Evie. The time we get is the time we get.”

— Nicola Yoon

455. “I’ve read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read. I’ve read more. Believe me.”

— Nicola Yoon

456. “The ocean here is weird. It’s the wrong kind of blue.”

— Nicola Yoon

457. “He leans his forehead against mine. His breath is warm against my nose and cheeks. It’s slightly sweet. The kind of sweet that makes you want more.”

— Nicola Yoon

458. “Be more specific, please. Olly: jesus. girls. ocean blue.”

— Nicola Yoon

459. “Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don.”

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460. “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

461. “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

462. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

464. “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

465. “Once you become part of the world, the world becomes a part of you, too.”

— Nicola Yoon

466. “Am I in your head?’, I ask her.”

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467. “Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”

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468. “As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I’m repeating something in the past, it feels like I’m experiencing something that will happen in my future... It’s like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.”

— Nicola Yoon

469. “To love is human. We can’t help ourselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

470. “I spend that first week – and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something.”

— Nicola Yoon

471. “You’re kind of a hopeless romantic,” I say.”

— Nicola Yoon

472. “I wonder how his dad has managed to live in the world all his life without knowing what was precious in it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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476. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

478. “Love always changes everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

483. “Where’s the proof of the life I have lived?”

— Nicola Yoon

484. “Se uno non ha rimpianti, significa che non sta vivendo.”

— Nicola Yoon

485. “There’s no denying it now. I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

486. “I’ll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him.”

— Nicola Yoon

487. “Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.”

— Nicola Yoon

488. “You’re born. You get thrown onto the crazy contraption called life that just goes around and around.”

— Nicola Yoon

489. “What did you get?′ I lean my head back against his chest. ‘Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.’ ‘Why do people buy all this stuff?’ He holds me a little tighter. ‘It’s not so mysterious,’ he says. ‘It’s so we remember to remember.”

— Nicola Yoon

490. “Angst is good for you. It’s the asking of questions that’s important, not the answers.”

— Nicola Yoon

491. “I should know better than to banter. Why? Because in every romance book ever written, banter is a gateway drug. Banter leads to actual conversation, which leads to dating, which leads to kissing, which leads to coupling, which leads to heartbreak. I turn the corner onto my street and remind myself that the only reason I’m entering this competition is so I can figure out a way to get rid of the visions. Despite how it might seem, this is not a love story.”

— Nicola Yoon

492. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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493. “What is it about being in the same room with him that makes me so conscious of my body and all its parts? He even makes me aware of my skin.”

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494. “Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead of pursuing your passion.”

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495. “Meant to be doesn’t have to man forever.”

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496. “People in love want everyone else to be in love.”

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497. “If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.”

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498. “Sometimes I wish there were a weather report for your life. Tomorrow’s forecast is for routine high school shenanigans in the morning, but with dramatic parental betrayal by late afternoon, ending with wild emotional despair by nightfall. Details after the next commercial break.”

— Nicola Yoon

499. “Do you have any idea what it’s like not to fit in anywhere?”

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500. “Do you have any idea what it’s like not to fit in anywhere?′ Again I say it too quietly to be heard, and again he hears me.”

— Nicola Yoon