Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

355. “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

356. “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

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

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358. “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.”

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

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360. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

366. “God would never hang out here.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

368. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

369. “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

370. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

372. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

375. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

379. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

381. “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

382. “We are programmed to plan ahead. It’s part of our rhythm. The sun rises every day and defers to the moon every night.”

— Nicola Yoon

383. “The ocean here is weird. It’s the wrong kind of blue.”

— Nicola Yoon

384. “He leans his forehead against mine. His breath is warm against my nose and cheeks. It’s slightly sweet. The kind of sweet that makes you want more.”

— Nicola Yoon

385. “Couples in love believe they’ll always be in love. It’s one of the ways you know you’re in love in the first place.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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387. “Be more specific, please. Olly: jesus. girls. ocean blue.”

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388. “There are entire worlds that exist just beneath our notice of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

389. “Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don.”

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

— Nicola Yoon

391. “Everything is nothing.”

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392. “It’s at least thirty seconds before everyone puts back on his or her protective I’m-on-a-train-filled-with-strangers face. I wonder if that was the dancers’ intention – to get us all to connect just for a moment.”

— Nicola Yoon

393. “He turns and stares down the street like there’s something out there he’s been hoping to see. “People don’t come back, Evie. The time we get is the time we get.”

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

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395. “There’s more to life than being alive.”

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396. “The universe stops and waits for us.”

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397. “You have enough things to be afraid of. Love can’t kill you.”

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398. “Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.”

— Nicola Yoon

399. “Because of you I’ve survived this long and gotten a chance to know my small part of the world. But it’s not enough. It’s not your fault. It’s this impossible life. I’m not doing this just because of Olly. Or maybe I am. I don’t know. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s Olly and it’s not-Olly at the same time. It’s like I can’t look at the world in the old way anymore. I found this new part of myself when I met him and the new part doesn’t know how to stay quiet and still and just observe.”

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400. “But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.”

— Nicola Yoon