Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We’re not meant to be, Daniel. I’m an undocumented immigrant. I’m being deported. Today is my last day in America. Tomorrow I’ll be gone.”

— Nicola Yoon

102. “He tells me that high school is no utopia, but I’m not convinced. What else would you call a place that exists solely to teach you about the world? What do you call a place with friends and teachers and libraries and book club and math club and debate club and any other kind of club and after-school activities and endless possibilities?”

— Nicola Yoon

103. “Studies have shown that the pupils of people who are attracted to each other dilate from the presence of dopamine. Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all.”

— Nicola Yoon

104. “The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.”

— Nicola Yoon

105. “I want to say something, not just something, but the perfect thing to comfort him, to make him forget his family for a few minutes, but I can’t think of it. This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

106. “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

107. “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

108. “Sincerity is sexy, and my cynical heart notices.”

— Nicola Yoon

109. “For every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice.”

— Nicola Yoon

110. “You should try it again. The meaning changes every time you read it.”

— Nicola Yoon

111. “And she’s not wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

112. “How is it possible to have an emotion and its opposite at the same time?”

— Nicola Yoon

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

116. “We are lips and arms and legs and bodies entangled. He raises himself above me and we are wordless, and then we are joined and moving silently. We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”

— Nicola Yoon

117. “You can’t just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It’s not just a matter of choosing a couple of people and making them ask each other some questions, and then love blossoms. The moon and the stars are involved. I’m certain of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

118. “Love is everything. Everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

119. “Life doesn’t always go the way you plan.”

— Nicola Yoon

120. “What does it mean to wear your hair natural versus straightened? Is straightening your hair a form of self-hatred? Does it mean you think your hair in its natural state is not beautiful? If you wear your hair naturally, are you making a political statement, claiming black power?”

— Nicola Yoon

121. “People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”

— Nicola Yoon

122. “Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results. A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future.”

— Nicola Yoon

123. “If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. In.”

— Nicola Yoon

124. “Rejection was like sandpaper.”

— Nicola Yoon

125. “I know there’s a better way for me to tell her this, but I’m not feeling like my best self right now.”

— Nicola Yoon

126. “Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what the ground looks like. They believe their landing will be soft. That the ground is covered in soft stuff- feathers, down pillows, fluffy baby blankets, the shaggiest shag carpeting. But I’ve seen the ground. It is covered in lethal spikes fashioned fro the bones of other jumpers. The fall is not all survivable.”

— Nicola Yoon

127. “It’s weird to miss something you’ve never had – or don’t remember having, anyway.”

— Nicola Yoon

128. “It’s not your fault. Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”

— Nicola Yoon

129. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

131. “Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.”

— Nicola Yoon

132. “We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don’t mean anything.”

— Nicola Yoon

133. “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

134. “We look at each other and laugh for no reason. Or, not for no reason, but because the world just then seems extraordinary. For us to have met, to have fallen in love, to get to be together is beyond anything either of us had ever thought possible.”

— Nicola Yoon

135. “The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

137. “In my head I know I’ve been in love before, but it doesn’t feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”

— Nicola Yoon

138. “Observable Fact: Families are the worst.”

— Nicola Yoon

139. “C’era una volta una ragazza la cui vita era tutta una menzogna.”

— Nicola Yoon

140. “I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

142. “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

143. “And then I realize what Charlie’s problem with Daniel is. He hates that Daniel doesn’t hate himself. For all his uncertainties, Daniel is still more comfortable in his skin than Charlie will ever be in his.”

— Nicola Yoon

144. “Aside from my mom, Carla, and my tutors, the world barely know I exist. I mean, I exist online. I have online friends and my Tumblr book reviews, but that’s not the same as being a real person who can be visited by strange boys bearing Bundt cakes.”

— Nicola Yoon

145. “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

146. “I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amazing: we change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. 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. In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.”

— Nicola Yoon

147. “Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

— Nicola Yoon

148. “Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.”

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

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150. “I grab her hand and pull her toward me. She doesn’t resist, and I don’t stop pulling until the full lengths of our bodies are touching. I don’t stop pulling until she’s in my breathing space.”

— Nicola Yoon