Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “With that he takes a few steps backward and executes a perfect backflip. My poor shocked heart does the same thing, though a little less perfectly.”

— Nicola Yoon

154. “But not because he’s evil. And not because he’s a Stereotypical Korean Parent. But because he can’t see past his own history to let us have ours.”

— Nicola Yoon

155. “I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution for everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what’s true. “It’s not up to you to help other people fit you into a box,” she says.”

— Nicola Yoon

156. “I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

158. “She comes close again and I barrel ahead, because apparently that’s who I am with this girl. Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her. I like that I say what’s on my mind. I like that I barrel ahead despite the obstacles she raises. Normally I would give up, but not today.”

— Nicola Yoon

159. “Just because it’s the first time doesn’t make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning.”

— Nicola Yoon

160. “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

161. “Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they’re dead?”

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162. “Nothing hurts except my heart, but I’m trying not to use it. I read my books. Existential or nihilist ones. I have no patience for books that pretend life has meaning. I have no patience for happy endings.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

164. “There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning. That, though your earthly life may be hard, there’s a better place in your future, and God has a plan to get you there.”

— Nicola Yoon

165. “A photograph is a kind of time machine.”

— Nicola Yoon

166. “I am not a princess. And I don’t need rescuing.”

— Nicola Yoon

167. “It’s like knowing all the word to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.”

— Nicola Yoon

168. “The less he seemed to love them, the more they tried to become more loveable.”

— Nicola Yoon

169. “I’ve never really understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms in my body align themselves with the atoms in his.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

171. “This answer is so wholly lame, so unbelievably unsatisfying, that I almost hang up. Daniel would never feel this way. His heart chooses.”

— Nicola Yoon

172. “I-Jesus. Have you been this sexy the whole day?”

— Nicola Yoon

173. “It’s not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

175. “Life is hard, honey. Everyone finds a way.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

178. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

— Nicola Yoon

179. “Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

181. “He bumps me lightly with his shoulder and then steadies me with his hand on my back. I like the feel of his hand so much that I speed up a little to avoid it.”

— 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. 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

183. “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

184. “Our bodies are having their own conversation separate and apart from us.”

— Nicola Yoon

185. “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

186. “I think you got Zoltared!”

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187. “My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don’t want sunlight on it. I don’t want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again.”

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188. “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

189. “Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you’re going to make mistakes and break promises, now’s the time.”

— Nicola Yoon

190. “Not everybody can dance good, but everybody can dance.”

— Nicola Yoon

191. “In Cobain’s lyrics she finally finds the words. She writes a suicide note addressed to no one: “Oh well. Whatever. Nevermind.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

193. “No one wants to believe that life is random. My dad says he doesn’t know where my cynicism comes from, but I’m not a cynic. I am a realist. It’s better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don’t happen for a reason. They just happen.”

— Nicola Yoon

194. “What do I regret? That I went outside in the first place. That I saw and fell in love with the world. That I fell in love with Olly.”

— Nicola Yoon

195. “Some things you just have to experience for yourself.”

— Nicola Yoon

196. “She hates not knowing what happens next. Uncertainty is her enemy.”

— Nicola Yoon

197. “Because everything looks like chaos up close. Daniel thinks it’s a matter of scale. If you pull back far enough and wait for long enough, then order emerges.”

— Nicola Yoon

198. “I want to make it so no one and nothing can hurt me ever again. I want to get rid of every nice, kind, sweet, soft feeling inside myself until there’s nothing at all. No joy, but no pain either.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

200. “Observable Fact: People aren’t logical.”

— Nicola Yoon