Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

158. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

160. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

164. “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

165. “I am really not a girl to fall in love with. For one thing, I don’t like temporary, nonprovable things, and romantic love is both temporary and nonprovable.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

167. “Names are powerful things.”

— Nicola Yoon

168. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

171. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

173. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

180. “Rejection was like sandpaper.”

— Nicola Yoon

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

193. “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

194. “To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.”

— Nicola Yoon

195. “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

196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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