Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up?”

— Nicola Yoon

302. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

303. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

304. “Who knew you were this stubborn?” Not me. I didn’t know I was this stubborn.”

— Nicola Yoon

305. “It’s not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.”

— Nicola Yoon

306. “He smiles and doesn’t try to keep any of the sadness off his face. How can he be so okay with showing off his heart?”

— Nicola Yoon

307. “Natasha knows that if she has to leave America, all her friendships, even with Bev, will fade. Sure, they’ll try to stay in touch at the beginning, but it won’t be the same as seeing each other every day.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

309. “Infinite. The state of not knowing where one body ends and another begins.”

— Nicola Yoon

310. “She gave her son an American name followed by a Korean personal name followed by the family name. She named him Charles Jae Won Bae. She named her second son Daniel Jae Ho Bae. 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.”

— Nicola Yoon

311. “It’s at least thirty seconds before everyone puts back on his or her protective I’m-on-a-train-filled-with-strangers face. I wonder if that was the dancers’ intention – to get us all to connect just for a moment.”

— Nicola Yoon

312. “Her world is bigger than him and the things he taught her to be interested in. He doesn’t know when she outgrew him.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

314. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

315. “Life is a gift. Am I wasting mine?”

— Nicola Yoon

316. “It amazes me that people spend their entire days inside places like this doing things they don’t love for people they don’t like.”

— Nicola Yoon

317. “Desperation translates into every language.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

322. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

324. “I couldn’t imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would’ve been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn’t want him to know me.”

— Nicola Yoon

325. “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

326. “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

327. “The wanting scares me. It’s like a weed that spreads slowly, just beneath your notice. Before you know it, it’s pitted your surfaces and darkened your windows.”

— Nicola Yoon

328. “Q: Will I encounter turbulence? A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.”

— Nicola Yoon

329. “Because of you I’ve survived this long and gotten a chance to know my small part of the world. But it’s not enough. It’s not your fault. It’s this impossible life. I’m not doing this just because of Olly. Or maybe I am. I don’t know. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s Olly and it’s not-Olly at the same time. It’s like I can’t look at the world in the old way anymore. I found this new part of myself when I met him and the new part doesn’t know how to stay quiet and still and just observe.”

— Nicola Yoon

330. “Well, I think there’s something wrong with everyone, don’t you?”

— Nicola Yoon

331. “I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”

— Nicola Yoon

332. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

333. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

334. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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337. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

339. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

— Nicola Yoon

340. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

342. “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

343. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

346. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon