Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The world is too big and there’s not enough time for me to see it.”

— Nicola Yoon

352. “He holds his hands up like he’s defending himself, like he’s trying to push the words in the air back into me.”

— Nicola Yoon

353. “What do I regret? That I went outside in the first place. That I saw and fell in love with the world. That I fell in love with Olly.”

— Nicola Yoon

354. “She hates not knowing what happens next. Uncertainty is her enemy.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

356. “I love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical. I can’t imagine this becoming old and boring. I can’t imagine not wanting to hear what she has to say.”

— Nicola Yoon

357. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

359. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

360. “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

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

366. “Love Triangle... They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be and who they’re still becoming.”

— Nicola Yoon

367. “Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though – the best times – it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

369. “However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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371. “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

372. “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

373. “I’ve wanted to tell her about him for so long, but now I’m not sure where to begin. My heart is so full of him.”

— Nicola Yoon

374. “Do you want a girlfriend or are you one of those guys who likes to date around?” “I’m just waiting for the right one to come along,” he says.”

— Nicola Yoon

375. “They tried to stop me. They said it wasn’t worth my life, but I said that it was my life, and it was up to me to decide what it was worth. I said I was going to go and either I was going to die or I was going to get a better life.”

— Nicola Yoon

376. “But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

— Nicola Yoon

377. “We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”

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378. “I spend that first week – and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something.”

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

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380. “I wonder how his dad has managed to live in the world all his life without knowing what was precious in it.”

— Nicola Yoon

381. “Once you become part of the world, the world becomes a part of you, too.”

— Nicola Yoon

382. “Am I in your head?’, I ask her.”

— Nicola Yoon

383. “Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”

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384. “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

385. “To love is human. We can’t help ourselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

386. “Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”

— Nicola Yoon

387. “I feel as if I’ve never been touched before.”

— Nicola Yoon

388. “Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they’re the only thing the Internet is good for.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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390. “My plan is to get us to the roof so that we can make out in privacy.”

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391. “Okay,” I say. “I’m leaving now.” He raises a single eyebrow and I almost laugh. For a second, I feel like I’m a character in one of my old romance books. Raising a single eyebrow is such a Classic Romance Guy Characteristic.”

— Nicola Yoon

392. “Love always changes everything.”

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393. “The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.”

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

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395. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon