Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Boys come and go, but mothers are forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

253. “I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution to everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what’s true.”

— Nicola Yoon

254. “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

255. “The world is too big and there’s not enough time for me to see it.”

— Nicola Yoon

256. “He holds his hands up like he’s defending himself, like he’s trying to push the words in the air back into me.”

— Nicola Yoon

257. “The problem is chaos theory. There are too many inputs to the formula and even the small ones matter more than you think. And you can never measure them precisely enough. But! If you could, you could write a formula to predict the weather, the future, people.”

— Nicola Yoon

258. “In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean. So they would know where they were from. So they would know where they were going.”

— Nicola Yoon

259. “I READ ONCE that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amazing: We change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. 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

260. “It’s hard to completely hate someone who loves someone you love.”

— Nicola Yoon

261. “Names are powerful things.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

267. “You can be cynical all you want, but many a life can be saved by poetry.”

— Nicola Yoon

268. “Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s.”

— Nicola Yoon

269. “People feel so much. Love is so big and it leaves behind a crater. Even when it’s wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

270. “For us to have met, to have fallen in love, to get to be together is beyond anything either of us had ever thought possible.”

— Nicola Yoon

271. “Well, I think there’s something wrong with everyone, don’t you?”

— Nicola Yoon

272. “Area Teen Pretty Sure Day Can’t Get Worse, Is Wrong About That.”

— Nicola Yoon

273. “I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”

— Nicola Yoon

274. “Besides, I try not to want things I can’t have.”

— Nicola Yoon

275. “Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I’m being reassured with every breath that I’m more than just alive. I’m living.”

— Nicola Yoon

276. “Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions.”

— Nicola Yoon

277. “But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

279. “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

280. “Love can kill you...”

— Nicola Yoon

281. “I’m having trouble thinking and looking at her at the same time.”

— Nicola Yoon

282. “With those outfits, you two do not deserve music.”

— Nicola Yoon

283. “Is it always like that?” I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It’s never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.”

— Nicola Yoon

284. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

285. “I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

286. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

289. “When couples confess that they can’t stop thinking about each other, it’s because their serotonin level has dropped. People in love have the same low serotonin levels as people with OCD. The reason they can’t stop thinking about each other is that they are literally obsessed.”

— Nicola Yoon

290. “As if there were no last time And there is no next time And this time is the time that counts.”

— Nicola Yoon

291. “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

292. “You listened to Bob Marley, and a bartender got you some pot, and someone told you what irie means, and you think you know something. You saw a tiki bar and a beach and your hotel room. That is not a country. That is a resort.”

— Nicola Yoon

293. “Separation is not fatal.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

295. “It’s not hair dye being sold in these bottles, it’s happiness.”

— Nicola Yoon

296. “When Archibald and Maggie met in that audition line, they had no idea what they were at the beginning of. They didn’t know that their love of dancing would make a place for others to love it too. Or that their love would branch out into the world and make children and then grandchildren. Or that their love would lead to mine. Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

297. “People in love want everyone else to be in love.”

— Nicola Yoon

298. “If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

300. “I couldn’t imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would’ve been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn’t want him to know me.”

— Nicola Yoon