Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

303. “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

304. “But not because he’s evil. And not because he’s a Stereotypical Korean Parent. But because he can’t see past his own history to let us have ours.”

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305. “I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution for everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what’s true. “It’s not up to you to help other people fit you into a box,” she says.”

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

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307. “Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they’re dead?”

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

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309. “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

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

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

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

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313. “This answer is so wholly lame, so unbelievably unsatisfying, that I almost hang up. Daniel would never feel this way. His heart chooses.”

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

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315. “Maybe we don’t need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.”

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

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317. “It’s not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”

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

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319. “Maybe growing up is disappointing the people, who we love.”

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320. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

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321. “Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up?”

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322. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

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323. “George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the black hair care industry is worth more than one billion dollars annually.”

— Nicola Yoon

324. “He bumps me lightly with his shoulder and then steadies me with his hand on my back. I like the feel of his hand so much that I speed up a little to avoid it.”

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

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326. “Second chance- these days I realize this is the most unrealistic trope. If someone hurts you once, why would you give them the chance to do it again?”

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

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328. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

329. “I’m not usually a stalker, and I’m not following her, exactly. I’m maintaining a noncreepy, half-block distance between us.”

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

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

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332. “I think you got Zoltared!”

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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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337. “She hates not knowing what happens next. Uncertainty is her enemy.”

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

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

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341. “Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”

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342. “As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I’m repeating something in the past, it feels like I’m experiencing something that will happen in my future... It’s like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.”

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343. “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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344. “To love is human. We can’t help ourselves.”

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345. “Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.”

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346. “I spend that first week – and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something.”

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347. “I’m desperate to prevent her tears, but not because I’m noble or anything. I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying, and I have no intention of crying in front of the cute girl whose headphones I just broke.”

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348. “He’s the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.”

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349. “You’re kind of a hopeless romantic,” I say.”

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350. “I wonder how his dad has managed to live in the world all his life without knowing what was precious in it.”

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