Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I’m all the way here in Hawaii with you,” I say, repeating his words. “I never would’ve left my house if it weren’t for you.”

— Nicola Yoon

302. “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

303. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

308. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

313. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

317. “Our history is too compressed. We’re trying to fit a lifetime into a day.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

323. “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

324. “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

325. “You did all the things you were supposed to, and you’re still not happy.”

— Nicola Yoon

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

329. “I think you got Zoltared!”

— Nicola Yoon

330. “It smells good. You know sometimes in spring when it rains just for like five minutes and then the sun comes out right away and the water’s evaporating and the air is still damp? It smells like that. Really good.”

— Nicola Yoon

331. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

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340. “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

341. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

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342. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

344. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

346. “I know she’s just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.”

— Nicola Yoon

347. “I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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349. “Everyone loves to hate love triangles, but actually they’re great. They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be, and who they’re still becoming. Side note: If you ever find yourself choosing between a vampire and a werewolf, choose the vampire.”

— Nicola Yoon

350. “Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.”

— Nicola Yoon