Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “Sometimes I wish there were a weather report for your life. Tomorrow’s forecast is for routine high school shenanigans in the morning, but with dramatic parental betrayal by late afternoon, ending with wild emotional despair by nightfall. Details after the next commercial break.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

304. “The other, secret thing that I don’t say to anyone is this: I’m not sure I’m capable of love. Even temporarily.”

— Nicola Yoon

305. “And when it’s gone, it’s like it was never there at all.”

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306. “What is it about being in the same room with him that makes me so conscious of my body and all its parts? He even makes me aware of my skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

307. “It’s so we remember to remember.”

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308. “Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead of pursuing your passion.”

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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311. “Meant to be doesn’t have to man forever.”

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312. “For whatever reason, there are people that you want to tell your weird, secret thoughts to. You want to show them your pimples and tell them about your braces. You want them to love you because of those things, not in spite of them.”

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313. “It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”

— Nicola Yoon

314. “Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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316. “One of those stars is Daniel. I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them.”

— Nicola Yoon

317. “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

318. “The smile he gives me is worth living for.”

— Nicola Yoon

319. “I wonder if being with him will always feel like a discovery.”

— Nicola Yoon

320. “It doesn’t matter what she looks like. It doesn’t matter if she’s long or short legged. It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. It doesn’t matter if she’s pretty or not. It matters that she feels the sun on her skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

321. “Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us.”

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322. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

323. “He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.”

— Nicola Yoon

324. “Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply.”

— Nicola Yoon

325. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

326. “I’d give anything to really want the life my parents want for me.”

— Nicola Yoon

327. “You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

328. “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

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

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330. “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?”

— Nicola Yoon

331. “Having dreams never killed anybody.”

— Nicola Yoon

332. “There’s no denying it now. I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

334. “I’ll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him.”

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335. “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

336. “Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.”

— Nicola Yoon

337. “My heart’s been on my sleeve all day, and it’s pretty bruised up right now.”

— Nicola Yoon

338. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

339. “You’re born. You get thrown onto the crazy contraption called life that just goes around and around.”

— Nicola Yoon

340. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

341. “Thanks, Universe!”

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

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

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345. “What did you get?′ I lean my head back against his chest. ‘Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.’ ‘Why do people buy all this stuff?’ He holds me a little tighter. ‘It’s not so mysterious,’ he says. ‘It’s so we remember to remember.”

— Nicola Yoon

346. “Considering what the future may hold, jumping off this cliff doesn’t seem so scary at all.”

— Nicola Yoon

347. “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

348. “Where’s the proof of the life I have lived?”

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349. “Se uno non ha rimpianti, significa che non sta vivendo.”

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350. “Don’t fall in love with me Daniel.”

— Nicola Yoon