Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Love makes people crazy. Loss of love makes people crazy.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

153. “Aveces las cosas que se mezclan no se pueden volver a separar, por mucho que uno quiera hacerlo.”

— Nicola Yoon

154. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

156. “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

157. “Love can kill you and I’d rather be alive than out there living.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

159. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

161. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

166. “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

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

— 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. “Rejection was like sandpaper.”

— Nicola Yoon

170. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

180. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

184. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

186. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

188. “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

189. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

190. “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. Still. I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential. If I could take it apart and understand it then maybe I could make just exactly the right change.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

193. “Maybe growing up is disappointing the people, who we love.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

195. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

197. “Names are powerful things.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

199. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon