Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

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53. “Practicality is overrated.”

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54. “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.”

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55. “Doesn’t that book always make you cry?” “One day it won’t,” I say. “I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.”

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56. “He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. “That swimsuit,” he begins. “Is small,” I conclude.”

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57. “Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.”

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58. “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.”

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59. “I tell her that he thinks I’m funny and smart and beautiful in that order, and that the order matters.”

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

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61. “You deserve a little something.”

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62. “You’re not your dad,” I say, but he doesn’t believe me. I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?”

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63. “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

64. “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.”

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65. “Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what the ground looks like.”

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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.”

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

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68. “Everyone’s a snowflake, right? We’re all unique and complicated. We can never know the human heart, and all that.”

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69. “How can this be the same day? How can all these people be going about their lives totally oblivious to what’s been happening to mine? Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.”

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70. “Life is a gift don’t forget to live it.”

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71. “This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.”

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72. “It’s a strange thing to realize that you’re willing to die. It doesn’t come in a flash, a sudden epiphany. It happens slowly, a balloon leak in reverse.”

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73. “For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. This means that for every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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75. “Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true. For example, based on a single phone call, I have begun to hope for a miracle. I don’t even believe in God.”

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76. “He was going to get the American Dream that even Americans dream about.”

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77. “The only thing I know for sure is that this, being here with Olly, being able to love him and be loved by him, is everything.”

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78. “He says they’re not his type, but I don’t really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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80. “You’re just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.”

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81. “A little angst never hurt anyone.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “Immigrating to a new country is an act of hope, bravery, and, sometimes, desperation. I’d like to say a big thank-you to all the people who’ve made long journeys to distant shores for whatever reason. May you find what you’re looking for. Always know that the country of your destination is better for having you in it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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85. “Books don’t work their magic on me anymore. It used to be that if I was in a funk or in the barren hinterland between sad and mad, I could just pluck any random one from my favorites shelf and settle into my fuzzy pink chair for a good read. By chapter three – chapter four at the very latest – I’d be feeling better.”

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86. “We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don’t need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.”

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87. “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.”

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88. “Sometimes the truth can hurt more than you expect.”

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

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90. “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.”

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91. “Being alone with her in a dimly lit room is a little bit of heaven.”

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92. “All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart.”

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93. “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?”

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94. “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.”

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95. “Natasha doesn’t say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn’t have to mean forever.”

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96. “Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn’t be allowed to change meanings.”

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97. “To be clear: I don’t believe in fate. But I’m desperate.”

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98. “Doomed love is a part of life.”

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

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100. “Beware the Queen of Hearts. She’ll have your head.”

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