Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I’m really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don’t like poetic language. I don’t like poetry. I don’t even like people who like poetry. But I’m not dead inside either.”

— Nicola Yoon

252. “Time stumbles back into place. The plane and the seats reform. The passengers solidify into flesh. And blood. And bone. And heart.”

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

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254. “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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255. “We are programmed to plan ahead. It’s part of our rhythm. The sun rises every day and defers to the moon every night.”

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256. “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

257. “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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258. “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.”

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259. “One of the hazards of having friends, especially long time ones, is just how well they know you.”

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260. “If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”

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261. “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

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

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263. “He’s trying not to laugh, but the telltale dimple gives it away.”

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

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265. “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.”

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266. “Everything’s different and the same. I’m still Maddy. Olly’s still Olly. But we’re both more somehow. I know him in a new way. And I feel known, too.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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268. “I once told Olly that I knew my our heart better than I knew anything else, and it’s still true. I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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270. “Maybe it does bother me,′ he says, ’but only peripherally. It’s like a buzzing fly, you know? Annoying, but not actually life-threatening.”

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271. “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?”

— Nicola Yoon

272. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

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275. “But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine.”

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276. “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

277. “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

278. “You’re not living life if you’re not regretting.”

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279. “You can miss the future with people who are still alive too.”

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280. “Love Triangle... They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be and who they’re still becoming.”

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281. “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 commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that’s God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”

— Nicola Yoon

282. “Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though – the best times – it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.”

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283. “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.”

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284. “I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

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285. “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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286. “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.”

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

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289. “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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290. “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.”

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291. “I dream that I run away from home taking the bot I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and that I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room with the boy that loves me and that I dream that I’ve run away from home taking the boy I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room and that I dream about the life I’m already living.”

— Nicola Yoon

292. “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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293. “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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294. “It’s soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together.”

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295. “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.”

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296. “I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.”

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297. “Angst is good for you. It’s the asking of questions that’s important, not the answers.”

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298. “All of which isn’t to say that Jeremy Fitzgerald did the right thing or the wrong thing. It’s only to say this: love always changes everything.”

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299. “His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.”

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300. “Hope’ is the thing with feathers.”

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