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

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

— 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. “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

356. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— 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. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

368. “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

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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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. “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

373. “Love always changes everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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380. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

385. “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

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

388. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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389. “Angst is good for you. It’s the asking of questions that’s important, not the answers.”

— Nicola Yoon

390. “I should know better than to banter. Why? Because in every romance book ever written, banter is a gateway drug. Banter leads to actual conversation, which leads to dating, which leads to kissing, which leads to coupling, which leads to heartbreak. I turn the corner onto my street and remind myself that the only reason I’m entering this competition is so I can figure out a way to get rid of the visions. Despite how it might seem, this is not a love story.”

— Nicola Yoon

391. “People in love want everyone else to be in love.”

— Nicola Yoon

392. “If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.”

— Nicola Yoon

393. “Sometimes I wish there were a weather report for your life. Tomorrow’s forecast is for routine high school shenanigans in the morning, but with dramatic parental betrayal by late afternoon, ending with wild emotional despair by nightfall. Details after the next commercial break.”

— Nicola Yoon

394. “What is it about being in the same room with him that makes me so conscious of my body and all its parts? He even makes me aware of my skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

395. “Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead of pursuing your passion.”

— Nicola Yoon

396. “Meant to be doesn’t have to man forever.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

399. “Who reads? Not that I begrudge my life in book. All I know about the world I’ve learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine.”

— Nicola Yoon

400. “Back on the beach we dry off under a shady tree. I feel Olly’s eyes on me when he thinks I’m not noticing, but we are a mutual admiration society – I’m secretly ogling him, too.”

— Nicola Yoon