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

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

— Nicola Yoon

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

157. “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

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. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

163. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

166. “Sincerity is sexy, and my cynical heart notices.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

169. “And she’s not wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

171. “How is it possible to have an emotion and its opposite at the same time?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

173. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

174. “We are lips and arms and legs and bodies entangled. He raises himself above me and we are wordless, and then we are joined and moving silently. We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”

— Nicola Yoon

175. “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

176. “You can’t just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It’s not just a matter of choosing a couple of people and making them ask each other some questions, and then love blossoms. The moon and the stars are involved. I’m certain of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

183. “Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.”

— Nicola Yoon

184. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

185. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

196. “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

197. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

198. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

200. “When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil. Or a chain mail-wearing, sword swinging dragon slayer. It was fun to imagine those things because I already knew who I was. Now I don’t know anything. I don’t know who I’m supposed to be in my new world.”

— Nicola Yoon