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

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

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

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

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

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356. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

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357. “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.”

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358. “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.”

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359. “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.”

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

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361. “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.”

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

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363. “Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.”

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364. “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.”

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

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366. “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.”

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

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

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

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370. “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.”

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371. “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.”

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372. “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.”

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373. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

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374. “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.”

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375. “Spoiler alert: Everything is nothing.”

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376. “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.”

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377. “Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up?”

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378. “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?”

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379. “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.”

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380. “Who knew you were this stubborn?” Not me. I didn’t know I was this stubborn.”

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381. “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.”

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

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383. “Infinite. The state of not knowing where one body ends and another begins.”

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384. “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.”

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385. “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.”

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386. “Her world is bigger than him and the things he taught her to be interested in. He doesn’t know when she outgrew him.”

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

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

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389. “It amazes me that people spend their entire days inside places like this doing things they don’t love for people they don’t like.”

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390. “Desperation translates into every language.”

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391. “Our bodies are having their own conversation separate and apart from us.”

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392. “I’m not usually a stalker, and I’m not following her, exactly. I’m maintaining a noncreepy, half-block distance between us.”

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393. “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.”

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394. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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

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

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

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

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399. “Do you have any idea what it’s like not to fit in anywhere?”

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400. “Do you have any idea what it’s like not to fit in anywhere?′ Again I say it too quietly to be heard, and again he hears me.”

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