Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Boys come and go, but mothers are forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

353. “Because everything looks like chaos up close. Daniel thinks it’s a matter of scale. If you pull back far enough and wait for long enough, then order emerges.”

— Nicola Yoon

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

357. “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

358. “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

359. “Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.”

— Nicola Yoon

360. “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

361. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

365. “As if there were no last time And there is no next time And this time is the time that counts.”

— Nicola Yoon

366. “When Archibald and Maggie met in that audition line, they had no idea what they were at the beginning of. They didn’t know that their love of dancing would make a place for others to love it too. Or that their love would branch out into the world and make children and then grandchildren. Or that their love would lead to mine. Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

367. “When couples confess that they can’t stop thinking about each other, it’s because their serotonin level has dropped. People in love have the same low serotonin levels as people with OCD. The reason they can’t stop thinking about each other is that they are literally obsessed.”

— Nicola Yoon

368. “Mamas don’t know how to hate their babies. They love them too much.”

— Nicola Yoon

369. “Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

370. “One thing I’m certain of: Wanting just leads to more wanting.”

— Nicola Yoon

371. “I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it’s become my favorite place in the world.”

— Nicola Yoon

372. “L’amore apre le porte del mondo.”

— Nicola Yoon

373. “Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

374. “I know how this looks. It looks like we’re bantering, like sparks are flying between us like in witty, old romantic comedies. It looks like the start of something. But I promise you, there are no sparks. Nothing here is on fire. Archibald chuckles. “Well, Evie, this is our grandson, Xavier.” “It’s just X, Gramps,” X says. He gives Maggie a hug.”

— Nicola Yoon

375. “It takes three years Natasha’s natural hair to grow in fully. She doesn’t do it to make a political statement. In fact, she liked having her hair straight. In the future, she may mike it straight again. She does it because she wants to try something new. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”

— Nicola Yoon

376. “God would never hang out here.”

— Nicola Yoon

377. “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

378. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

380. “Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me.”

— Nicola Yoon

381. “I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body.”

— Nicola Yoon

382. “Sometimes I feel like we’re on opposite sides of a soundproofed glass wall. We can see each other but we can’t hear each other.”

— Nicola Yoon

383. “If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”

— Nicola Yoon

384. “I want things that I can name, and some things that I can’t. I want this one moment to last forever, but I don’t want to miss all the other moments to come. I want our entire future together, but I want it here and now.”

— Nicola Yoon

385. “My body burns where he doesn’t touch, and burns where he does.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

389. “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

390. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

392. “The world is casually cruel.”

— Nicola Yoon

393. “Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description.”

— Nicola Yoon

394. “We both stop walking to stare up at it. The engine temporarily blots out all other sound. “Paris would be nice,” I say after it’s gone. “Pretty happy right where I am,” he says. I don’t know when he stopped looking up at the sky and started looking at me instead.”

— Nicola Yoon

395. “But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.”

— Nicola Yoon

396. “Here’s what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”

— Nicola Yoon

397. “It’s one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make to lie to yourself.”

— Nicola Yoon

398. “My heart is so full of him.”

— Nicola Yoon

399. “The thing about my mom’s Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and me.” – Olly Bright.”

— Nicola Yoon

400. “And when it’s gone, it’s like it was never there at all.”

— Nicola Yoon