Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

152. “Names are powerful things.”

— Nicola Yoon

153. “I almost wish I hadn’t met him. How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who Reads?”

— Nicola Yoon

154. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

156. “I think that’s nonsense. We’re not snowflakes. We’re just outputs for a set of inputs.” I stop nodding. “Like a formula?” “Exactly like a formula.” He props himself up to his elbows and looks at me. “I think there are one or two inputs that matter the most. Figure those out and you’ve figured out the person. You can predict anything about them.”

— Nicola Yoon

157. “It’s a long life to spend doing something you’re only meh about.”

— Nicola Yoon

158. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

160. “Sometimes you fall off prematurely. Sometimes you get so damaged by other pieces of luggage falling on your head that you don’t really function anymore. Sometimes you get lost or forgotten and go around forever and ever.”

— Nicola Yoon

161. “His eyes are a clear, summer-blue lake that I can’t see the bottom of.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

163. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

165. “People who say it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all have never really loved anyone and never really lost anyone either.”

— Nicola Yoon

166. “For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.”

— Nicola Yoon

167. “Rejection was like sandpaper.”

— Nicola Yoon

168. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

173. “We watch the way the water pulls back and turns over and beats against the sand, trying to wear the earth away. And even though it doesn’t succeed, it pulls back and pounds the shore again and again, as if there were no last time and there is no next time and this time is the time that counts.”

— Nicola Yoon

174. “You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.”

— Nicola Yoon

175. “For most immigrants, moving to the new country is an act of faith. Even if you’ve heard stories of safety, opportunity, and prosperity, it’s still a leap to remove yourself from your own language, people, and country. Your own history. What if the stories weren’t true? What if you couldn’t adapt? What if you weren’t wanted in the new country?”

— Nicola Yoon

176. “Love is too small, too singular a word for the feeling it’s trying to hold. Just one word isn’t enough, so I want to use them all. Sometimes I think love is the reason language was invented.”

— Nicola Yoon

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

180. “When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

184. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

186. “Hearts grow bigger so you can love more.”

— Nicola Yoon

187. “I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body. I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

189. “Considering what the future may hold, jumping off this cliff doesn’t seem so scary at all.”

— Nicola Yoon

190. “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

191. “Sometime the world reveals itself to you.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

193. “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

194. “I love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical.”

— Nicola Yoon

195. “Still, getting over him didn’t take that long at all. And that’s the thing that makes me wary. Where did all those feelings go? 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

196. “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

197. “And she’s not wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

199. “Couples in love believe they’ll always be in love. It’s one of the ways you know you’re in love in the first place.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon