Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Having dreams never killed anybody.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

253. “This is the life you’re living. It’s not temporary, it’s not pretend, and there’s no do-over.”

— Nicola Yoon

254. “Mom said just because a thing ends doesn’t make the thing any less real. Just because everything is different now doesn’t mean we didn’t love each other once. Maybe we will again.”

— Nicola Yoon

255. “Once they met, the rest of it, the love between them, was inevitable.”

— Nicola Yoon

256. “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

257. “Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?”

— Nicola Yoon

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

262. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

265. “Don’t worry about her,” I say. “Some people aren’t happy until everything is done their way.”

— Nicola Yoon

266. “Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

271. “If I had a brain cell for every time I heard this, I’d be a goddamn genius.”

— Nicola Yoon

272. “Maya Angelou wrote in Human Family, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

— Nicola Yoon

273. “One thing I’ll know for sure: love can last forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

274. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

275. “How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I’m missing?”

— Nicola Yoon

276. “It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.”

— Nicola Yoon

277. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

279. “I hear the wind disturbing the trees. I hear birds gossiping in the mornings. I see the rectangles of sunlight that slip through my blinds and work their way across the room throughout the day.”

— Nicola Yoon

280. “When I first started with you I thought it was only a matter of time before depression would take you over. And there was that one summer when it came close, but it didn’t happen. 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

281. “On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it’s locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I’m looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.”

— Nicola Yoon

282. “You did all the things you were supposed to, and you’re still not happy.”

— Nicola Yoon

283. “I think you got Zoltared!”

— Nicola Yoon

284. “And I get it. I really do. Some days it’s hard to BE in America. Some days I feel like I’m halfway to the moon, trapped between the Earth and it.”

— Nicola Yoon

285. “I have no patience for books that pretend life has meaning. I have no patience for happy endings.”

— Nicola Yoon

286. “Some people aren’t happy until everything is done their way.”

— Nicola Yoon

287. “It smells good. You know sometimes in spring when it rains just for like five minutes and then the sun comes out right away and the water’s evaporating and the air is still damp? It smells like that. Really good.”

— Nicola Yoon

288. “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

289. “Totul e un risc. Si sa nu faci nimic e un risc. Tu decizi.”

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

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291. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

293. “How many versions of me will there be in this one lifetime?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

295. “With Daniel, it’s different somehow. I want him to see all of me.”

— Nicola Yoon

296. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

— Nicola Yoon

297. “How 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

298. “You’re afraid of becoming your dad. You don’t want to choose the wrong thing, so you don’t choose anything at all.”

— Nicola Yoon

299. “She looks for a passion and finds it in the study of physics. Some nights, in the soft, helpless moments before sleep comes, she recalls their conversation on the roof about love and dark matter. He said that love and dark matter were the same – the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart. Her heart speeds up every time she thinks of it. Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things.”

— Nicola Yoon

300. “Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”

— Nicola Yoon