Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “It’s not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.”

— Nicola Yoon

452. “She slips her hand into mine and smiles.”

— Nicola Yoon

453. “Sometimes if you look a word up in the dictionary, you’ll see some definitions marked as obsolete. Natasha often wonders about this, how language can be slippery. A word can start off meaning one thing and end up meaning another.”

— Nicola Yoon

454. “My type is girls. All of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

455. “He smiles and doesn’t try to keep any of the sadness off his face. How can he be so okay with showing off his heart?”

— Nicola Yoon

456. “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

457. “Love Triangle... They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be and who they’re still becoming.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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459. “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

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

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461. “My heart is so full of him.”

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462. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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463. “And now my life doesn’t make sense anymore. 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? Not that I begrudge my life in books. All I know about the world I’ve learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine.”

— Nicola Yoon

464. “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

465. “It smells good. You know sometimes in spring when it rains just for like five minutes and then the sun comes out right away and the water’s evaporating and the air is still damp? It smells like that. Really good.”

— Nicola Yoon

466. “The world is casually cruel.”

— Nicola Yoon

467. “It’s not that Daniel wants to let Natasha go. He holds on for as long as he can. But he hearts the strain in her voice across the distance. In her new accent, he hears the cadence of her slipping away from him.”

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468. “I have no patience for books that pretend life has meaning. I have no patience for happy endings.”

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

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

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471. “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

472. “My butterflies are rioting.”

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473. “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

474. “I love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical. I can’t imagine this becoming old and boring. I can’t imagine not wanting to hear what she has to say.”

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475. “Love is too small, too singular a word for the feeling it’s trying to hold. Just one word isn’t enough, so I want to use them all. Sometimes I think love is the reason language was invented.”

— Nicola Yoon

476. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

477. “If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

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478. “In darkness, there’s still hope. Some hidden things in the places you can’t see. Grief to me feels like an endless landscape of white light. No secrets. No surprises either. You can see clearly all you have lost. Everything that is no longer there.”

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479. “My stomach does a little flip thing that I’m realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him.”

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

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481. “I’m all the way here in Hawaii with you,” I say, repeating his words. “I never would’ve left my house if it weren’t for you.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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483. “I’m sorry that you’re sick.” “It’s not your fault.” “I know, but I wish that I could give you more than this.”

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484. “Nothing is ever universal.”

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485. “His eyes drift across my face as if he’s trying to remember something. “Why do I feel like I’ve always known you?” he asks.”

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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.”

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487. “If I cry, everything will be real. I really will have to live this life.”

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488. “It would be better if it did break, better than living with wanting and not having, better than living itself.”

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

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490. “You weren’t so cold just a minutes ago.”

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

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492. “I was here. Xavier. X. “It’s you,” I say. “It’s me,” he agrees. “But why?” I ask. “You mean that existentially or what?” He smirks and raises an eyebrow at me, displaying not one but two Classic Romance Guy Characteristics.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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494. “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.”

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495. “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

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

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497. “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

498. “When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil. Or a chain mail-wearing, sword swinging dragon slayer. It was fun to imagine those things because I already knew who I was. Now I don’t know anything. I don’t know who I’m supposed to be in my new world.”

— Nicola Yoon

499. “Love always changes everything.”

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

— Nicola Yoon