Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “This is the life you’re living. It’s not temporary, it’s not pretend, and there’s no do-over.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

303. “My mother loved my father. He was the love of her life. And she loved my brother. He was the love of her life. And she loves me. I am the love of her life.”

— Nicola Yoon

304. “From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.”

— Nicola Yoon

305. “She knew what would happen. There was always going to be someone else. Someone who isn’t sick.”

— Nicola Yoon

306. “Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you’re going to make mistakes and break promises, now’s the time.”

— Nicola Yoon

307. “Trascorsa un’epoca, finalmente la settimana si conclude.”

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

— Nicola Yoon

309. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

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310. “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

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

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312. “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

313. “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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314. “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

315. “Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too.”

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316. “I’m going to do whatever the world tells me to. I’m going to act like I’m in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I’m going to pretend my future’s wide open, and that anything can happen.”

— Nicola Yoon

317. “Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings.”

— Nicola Yoon

318. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

320. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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326. “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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327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

333. “I think you got Zoltared!”

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334. “My heart is so full of him.”

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335. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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338. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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345. “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.”

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346. “I don’t know why we lose the people we love and we’re expected to go on after we lose them. But I know that to love is human. We can’t help ourselves. The philosopher-poets say love is the answer, but it’s more than that. Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

347. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

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

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349. “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

350. “What if we are just a digression in someone else’s history?”

— Nicola Yoon