Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers – no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I.”

— Nicola Yoon

153. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

154. “I’m giddy and trying not to be. This is more difficult than you’d imagine. Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

161. “Names are powerful things.”

— Nicola Yoon

162. “Does he really need me to tell him that all the seconds matter? That our own universe exploded into existence in the space of a breath?”

— Nicola Yoon

163. “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

164. “Do you think it’s funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now?” I ask. “Maybe that’s why we dislike them,” she says. “The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”

— Nicola Yoon

165. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

167. “Love makes people crazy. Loss of love makes people crazy.”

— Nicola Yoon

168. “A Tale of Two Kisses. To Kiss a Mockingbird. As I Lay Kissing.”

— Nicola Yoon

169. “From the edge of space I can see the whole world all 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 there. For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.”

— Nicola Yoon

170. “Time moves in both directions – forward and backwards- and what happens here and now changes them both.”

— Nicola Yoon

171. “You’re all the good things wrapped into one good thing.”

— Nicola Yoon

172. “I wanted you and the whole wide world. I wanted everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

173. “And she’s not wrong.”

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174. “Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule.”

— Nicola Yoon

175. “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. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when the word means both things? Or a time when the word doesn’t mean anything at all?”

— Nicola Yoon

176. “I understand. Really I do. But there’s part of me, the part that doesn’t believe in God or true love, that really wants him to prove me wrong about not believing in those things. I want him to choose me. Even though it’s way too early in the history of us.”

— Nicola Yoon

177. “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

178. “Some prescient part of him saw the two paths diverging in the yellow wood. Maybe if he’d chosen the other path, if he’d left the store instead of stayed, it would’ve made all the difference.”

— Nicola Yoon

179. “I love you, Maddy.” “I love you, Olly. I loved you before I knew you.”

— Nicola Yoon

180. “Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.”

— Nicola Yoon

181. “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

182. “He thinks of poverty as a kind of contagion, and he doesn’t want them to hear about it lest they catch it.”

— Nicola Yoon

183. “Almost nobody gets out of love alive. – Helen Fisher.”

— Nicola Yoon

184. “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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185. “You can get lost in you own mind, like you gone to another country. All you thoughts in another language and you can’t read the signs even though they everywhere all around you.”

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186. “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.”

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187. “That night, I dream that the house breathes with me. I exhale and the walls contract like a pinpricked balloon, crushing me as it deflates. I inhale and the walls expand. A single breath more and my life will finally, finally explode.”

— Nicola Yoon

188. “I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple.”

— Nicola Yoon

189. “It’s hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn’t want you.”

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190. “I’ve read many, many books involving heartache. Not one has ever described it as little. Soul-shattering and world-destroying yes. Little, no” -Madeline.”

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191. “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

192. “Of all the ways today could’ve gone, I couldn’t have predicted this. But now I’m sure that everything that’s happened today has been leading me to her and us to this moment and this moment to the rest of our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

193. “In capul meu, stiu c-am mai fost indragostit, dar nu simt asa. Sa fiu indragostit de tine e mai bine decat prima oara. Se simte ca prima si ca ultima oara si ca singura oara, toate odata.”

— Nicola Yoon

194. “To her I’m just another anonymous face, another applicant, another someone who wants something from America.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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197. “He remembered sitting at the breakfast bar and stirring the milk and chocolate together. How the chocolate turned white, and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can’t unmix things no matter how much you might want to.”

— Nicola Yoon

198. “I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

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199. “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.”

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200. “Everything’s different and the same. I’m still Maddy. Olly’s still Olly. But we’re both more somehow. I know him in a new way. And I feel known, too.”

— Nicola Yoon