Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “If I had a brain cell for every time I heard this, I’d be a goddamn genius.”

— Nicola Yoon

302. “For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.”

— Nicola Yoon

303. “Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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309. “You listened to Bob Marley, and a bartender got you some pot, and someone told you what irie means, and you think you know something. You saw a tiki bar and a beach and your hotel room. That is not a country. That is a resort.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

311. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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315. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

320. “Life is hard, honey. Everyone finds a way.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

322. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

324. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

325. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

327. “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

328. “Having dreams never killed anybody.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

333. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

335. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

337. “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

338. “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

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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342. “All the things that have happened to him, even the bad, have happened for a reason.”

— Nicola Yoon

343. “You can’t persuade someone to love you.”

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344. “To grow up is to grow apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

345. “In modern times, the sisters have largely disappeared from the collective consciousness, but the idea of Fate hasn’t. Why do we still believe? Does it make tragedy more bearable to believe that we ourselves had no hand in it, that we couldn’t have prevented it? It was always ever thus.”

— Nicola Yoon

346. “America, the family name is called the last name. Dae Hyun said it showed that Americans think the individual is more important than the family.”

— Nicola Yoon

347. “That and the fact that my extreme like for her is clearly unrequited. And love is not love if it’s not requited, right?”

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348. “Do you girls really find it so easy to lie to your mamas?”

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349. “Promise. The lie you want to keep.”

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

— Nicola Yoon