Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I am made. I am unmade.”

— Nicola Yoon

52. “He said that love and dark matter were the same – the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

53. “America’s not really a melting pot. It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.”

— Nicola Yoon

54. “A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”

— Nicola Yoon

55. “Maybe it’s better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we’re just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

56. “The thing about falling is you don’t have any control on your way down.”

— Nicola Yoon

57. “It’s hard to love someone who doesn’t love you back.”

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58. “We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ in terms of sheer beauty. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”

— Nicola Yoon

59. “Safety is not everything. There’s more to life than being alive.”

— Nicola Yoon

60. “Hearts don’t break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.”

— Nicola Yoon

61. “Love is everything. Everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

62. “A little angst never hurt anyone.”

— Nicola Yoon

63. “Even though I hate poetry, a poem I read for English class pops into my head. “Hope” is the thing with feathers. I understand concretely what that means now. Something inside my chest wants to fly out, wants to sing and laugh and dance with relief. I.”

— Nicola Yoon

64. “Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.”

— Nicola Yoon

65. “The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it’s a long way down.”

— Nicola Yoon

66. “But I have a strange and happy feeling that I can’t quite describe. It’s like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.”

— Nicola Yoon

67. “Observable Fact: I don’t believe in magic. Observable Fact: We are magic.”

— Nicola Yoon

68. “Words shouldn’t be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when word means both things. Or a time when the word doesn’t mean anything at all?”

— Nicola Yoon

69. “Hearts don’t break. It’s just another thing poets say. Hearts are not made of glass or bone or any material that could splinter or fragment or shatter. They don’t crack into pieces. They don’t fall apart. Hearts don’t break. They just stop working.”

— Nicola Yoon

70. “Doomed love is a part of life.”

— Nicola Yoon

71. “Why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”

— Nicola Yoon

72. “If the person who’s meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then what is there to believe in?”

— Nicola Yoon

73. “Why would you throw your future away for temporary things that you only want right now?”

— Nicola Yoon

74. “People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”

— Nicola Yoon

75. “We pass a woman shaking her head and slapping at the steering wheel with her hands. Only after we’ve passed her do I figure out that she was probably dancing to music.”

— Nicola Yoon

76. “La vida es un regalo no la desprecies.”

— Nicola Yoon

77. “Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things.”

— Nicola Yoon

78. “Ever since Olly came into my life there’ve been two Maddys: the one who lives through books and doesn’t want to die, and the one who lives and suspects that death will be a small price to pay for it.”

— Nicola Yoon

79. “I’m not scared I won’t survive the pain. I’m scared the pain will never end and I’ll have to live with it forever. The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.”

— Nicola Yoon

80. “We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”

— Nicola Yoon

81. “Before these buildings were buildings, they were just the skeletons of them. Before they were skeletons, they were cross-beams and girders. Metal and glass and concrete. And before that, they were construction plans. Before that, architectural plans. And before that, just an idea someone had for the making of a city.”

— Nicola Yoon

82. “The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.”

— Nicola Yoon

83. “Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.”

— Nicola Yoon

84. “I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York’s. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel.”

— Nicola Yoon

85. “I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don’t want to love him. I really don’t. As strategies go, it’s not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”

— Nicola Yoon

86. “I am not lonely, Mom,” I snap. “I am alone. Those are different things.”

— Nicola Yoon

87. “I keep picturing myself floating high above the earth. From the edge of space, I can see the whole world at once. My eyes don’t have to stop at a wall or at a door. I can see the beginning and the end of time. I can see infinity from here.”

— Nicola Yoon

88. “I know all these things. I know them the way I know that Polaris, the North Star, is not actually the brightest star in the sky – it’s the fiftieth.”

— Nicola Yoon

89. “How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”

— Nicola Yoon

90. “No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to.”

— Nicola Yoon

91. “One thing I’m certain of: Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”

— Nicola Yoon

92. “You deserve a little something.”

— Nicola Yoon

93. “Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell“Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.”

— Nicola Yoon

94. “Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There’s more to life than being alive.”

— Nicola Yoon

95. “I wish again that I could talk to my mom about this. I want to ask her why I get breathless when I think of him. I want to share my giddiness with her. I want to tell her all the funny things Olly says. I want to tell her how I can’t make myself stop thinking about him even though I try. I want to ask her if this is the way she felt about Dad at the beginning.”

— Nicola Yoon

96. “They don’t know what poor is. They don’t know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don’t know what it does to the body. To a mind.”

— Nicola Yoon

97. “It’s not that Natasha wants to let Daniel go; it’s that she has to let go. It isn’t possible for her to live in two worlds simultaneously, heart in one place, body in another. She lets go of Daniel to avoid being ripped apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

98. “It’s better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don’t happen for a reason. They just happen.”

— Nicola Yoon

99. “Even I’m surprised by how much I’ve been feeling for her all day. The thing about falling is you don’t have any control on your way down. I.”

— Nicola Yoon

100. “He’s tired, but not the kind of tired that sleeping can fix.”

— Nicola Yoon