Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “With those outfits, you two do not deserve music.”

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452. “I stifle the urge to go back to the window and assess my competition. But it’s not a competition if one person can’t even show up for the event.”

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453. “Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.”

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454. “It’s hard to come for someplace or someone you’re not proud of.”

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455. “Everyone wants to be able to predict the future.”

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456. “But he’s a married man. His heart is not the only one involved.”

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457. “He will hold her and wonder, very briefly, about the future that loving her will cost him.”

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

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

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

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

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462. “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.”

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

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

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465. “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.”

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466. “To grow up is to grow apart.”

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467. “Promise. The lie you want to keep.”

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468. “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

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

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

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

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473. “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.”

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474. “Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

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475. “One of those stars is Daniel. I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them.”

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476. “I wonder if being with him will always feel like a discovery.”

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477. “Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us.”

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478. “Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply.”

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479. “You can find the meaning of life in a book.”

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480. “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.”

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481. “Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.”

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482. “I’m going to do whatever the world tells me to. I’m going to act like I’m in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I’m going to pretend my future’s wide open, and that anything can happen.”

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483. “Toria haosului spune ca si cea mai mica schimbare in starea initiala poate duce la rezultate extrem de imprevizibile. Un fluture bate din aripi acum si un uragan se formeaza in viitor.”

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

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485. “My type is girls. All of them.”

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486. “When couples confess that they can’t stop thinking about each other, it’s because their serotonin level has dropped. People in love have the same low serotonin levels as people with OCD. The reason they can’t stop thinking about each other is that they are literally obsessed.”

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487. “As if there were no last time And there is no next time And this time is the time that counts.”

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488. “When Archibald and Maggie met in that audition line, they had no idea what they were at the beginning of. They didn’t know that their love of dancing would make a place for others to love it too. Or that their love would branch out into the world and make children and then grandchildren. Or that their love would lead to mine. Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

489. “I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it’s become my favorite place in the world.”

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490. “Mamas don’t know how to hate their babies. They love them too much.”

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491. “Everything is nothing.”

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492. “One thing I’m certain of: Wanting just leads to more wanting.”

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493. “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.”

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

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

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496. “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.”

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497. “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.”

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498. “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.”

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

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500. “God would never hang out here.”

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