Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Names are powerful things.”

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

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203. “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.”

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204. “How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. 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. That all the things that have happened to him, even the bad, have happened for a reason.”

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205. “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?”

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206. “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.”

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207. “He tells me that high school is no utopia, but I’m not convinced. What else would you call a place that exists solely to teach you about the world? What do you call a place with friends and teachers and libraries and book club and math club and debate club and any other kind of club and after-school activities and endless possibilities?”

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208. “Studies have shown that the pupils of people who are attracted to each other dilate from the presence of dopamine. Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all.”

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209. “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.”

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210. “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.”

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

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

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213. “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.”

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

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

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

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217. “You should try it again. The meaning changes every time you read it.”

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218. “Dark matter is love. It’s the attracting force.”

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219. “I’m glad you think this is funny,” he says. “Come on,” I say. “Tragedy is funny.” “Are we in a tragedy?” he asks, smiling broadly now. “Of course. Isn’t that what life is? We all die at the end.”

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220. “We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.”

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

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222. “I think you got Zoltared!”

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

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

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225. “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.”

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226. “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.”

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

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228. “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.”

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

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

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231. “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.”

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232. “Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse. Love is a terrible thing and i want nothing to do with it.”

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233. “This day can’t be all there is,” Daniel says once, and then twice. Natasha doesn’t say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn’t have to mean forever.”

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234. “He thinks of poverty as a kind of contagion, and he doesn’t want them to hear about it lest they catch it.”

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235. “He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I’ve ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future.”

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236. “Before him my life was a palindrome – the same forward and backward, like “A man, a plan, a canal. Panama,” or “Madam, I’m Adam.” But Olly’s like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence.”

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

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238. “I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.”

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239. “What if we are just a digression in someone else’s history?”

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240. “But it’s never just one moment. It’s a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don’t.”

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241. “Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.”

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242. “My father’s,” she says, smiling. “He used to think I was the greatest thing ever.”

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243. “I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it’s become my favourite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once.”

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244. “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.”

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245. “Her world is bigger than him and the things he taught her to be interested in. He doesn’t know when she outgrew him.”

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246. “Our history is too compressed. We’re trying to fit a lifetime into a day.”

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247. “Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there.”

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248. “However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.”

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249. “Imagine, though, if you could just change the right inputs; you could fix things before they went wrong.”

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250. “Infinite. The state of not knowing where one body ends and another begins.”

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