Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “All the things that have happened to him, even the bad, have happened for a reason.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

353. “To grow up is to grow apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

360. “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Nicola Yoon

361. “Maybe their universe is just taking longer to form.”

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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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

365. “It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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367. “Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

369. “I’m desperate to prevent her tears, but not because I’m noble or anything. I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying, and I have no intention of crying in front of the cute girl whose headphones I just broke.”

— Nicola Yoon

370. “He’s the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

372. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

374. “One of the hazards of having friends, especially long time ones, is just how well they know you.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

376. “He thinks of poverty as a kind of contagion, and he doesn’t want them to hear about it lest they catch it.”

— Nicola Yoon

377. “He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I’ve ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future.”

— Nicola Yoon

378. “God would never hang out here.”

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

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380. “Before him my life was a palindrome – the same forward and backward, like “A man, a plan, a canal. Panama,” or “Madam, I’m Adam.” But Olly’s like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence.”

— Nicola Yoon

381. “Almost nobody gets out of love alive. – Helen Fisher.”

— Nicola Yoon

382. “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

383. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

384. “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

385. “I stifle the urge to go back to the window and assess my competition. But it’s not a competition if one person can’t even show up for the event.”

— Nicola Yoon

386. “Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

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387. “You can get lost in you own mind, like you gone to another country. All you thoughts in another language and you can’t read the signs even though they everywhere all around you.”

— Nicola Yoon

388. “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

389. “Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

390. “It’s hard to come for someplace or someone you’re not proud of.”

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391. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

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392. “Everyone wants to be able to predict the future.”

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393. “Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results. A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future. Still. I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential. If I could take it apart and understand it then maybe I could make just exactly the right change.”

— Nicola Yoon

394. “We can’t always get what we want.”

— Nicola Yoon

395. “La vida es un regalo no la desprecies.”

— Nicola Yoon

396. “But he’s a married man. His heart is not the only one involved.”

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397. “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

398. “Her backpack’s in her lap and she’s hugging it to her chest like it might get up and walk away at any second.”

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399. “He will hold her and wonder, very briefly, about the future that loving her will cost him.”

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400. “I’ve read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read. I’ve read more. Believe me.”

— Nicola Yoon