Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

353. “Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there.”

— Nicola Yoon

354. “Imagine, though, if you could just change the right inputs; you could fix things before they went wrong.”

— Nicola Yoon

355. “One thing I’ll know for sure: love can last forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

356. “If I had a brain cell for every time I heard this, I’d be a goddamn genius.”

— Nicola Yoon

357. “In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.”

— Nicola Yoon

358. “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

359. “This day can’t be all there is,” Daniel says once, and then twice. Natasha doesn’t say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn’t have to mean forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

360. “How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I’m missing?”

— Nicola Yoon

361. “On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it’s locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I’m looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.”

— Nicola Yoon

362. “You did all the things you were supposed to, and you’re still not happy.”

— Nicola Yoon

363. “I hear the wind disturbing the trees. I hear birds gossiping in the mornings. I see the rectangles of sunlight that slip through my blinds and work their way across the room throughout the day.”

— Nicola Yoon

364. “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

365. “I think you got Zoltared!”

— Nicola Yoon

366. “My heart is so full of him.”

— Nicola Yoon

367. “And I get it. I really do. Some days it’s hard to BE in America. Some days I feel like I’m halfway to the moon, trapped between the Earth and it.”

— Nicola Yoon

368. “I have no patience for books that pretend life has meaning. I have no patience for happy endings.”

— Nicola Yoon

369. “Some people aren’t happy until everything is done their way.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

372. “With Daniel, it’s different somehow. I want him to see all of me.”

— Nicola Yoon

373. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

376. “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

377. “I don’t know why we lose the people we love and we’re expected to go on after we lose them. But I know that to love is human. We can’t help ourselves. The philosopher-poets say love is the answer, but it’s more than that. Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

378. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

— Nicola Yoon

379. “How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can’t unmix things no matter how much you might want to.”

— Nicola Yoon

380. “She looks for a passion and finds it in the study of physics. Some nights, in the soft, helpless moments before sleep comes, she recalls their conversation on the roof about love and dark matter. He said that love and dark matter were the same – the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart. Her heart speeds up every time she thinks of it. Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things.”

— Nicola Yoon

381. “Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”

— Nicola Yoon

382. “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

383. “What if we are just a digression in someone else’s history?”

— Nicola Yoon

384. “Los amores sin futuro forman parte de la vida.- Carla.”

— Nicola Yoon

385. “The world is too big and there’s not enough time for me to see it.”

— Nicola Yoon

386. “Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”

— Nicola Yoon

387. “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

388. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

391. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

392. “In darkness, there’s still hope. Some hidden things in the places you can’t see. Grief to me feels like an endless landscape of white light. No secrets. No surprises either. You can see clearly all you have lost. Everything that is no longer there.”

— Nicola Yoon

393. “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

394. “The smile he gives me is worth living for.”

— Nicola Yoon

395. “It doesn’t matter what she looks like. It doesn’t matter if she’s long or short legged. It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. It doesn’t matter if she’s pretty or not. It matters that she feels the sun on her skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

396. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

397. “You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

398. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I have to get to him. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have to protect him.”

— Nicola Yoon

399. “During the final minute, hurt settles into their bones. It colonizes their bodies, spreads to their tissue and muscles and blood and cells.”

— Nicola Yoon

400. “I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon