Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

410. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

412. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

413. “The poetic heart is not to be trusted with long-term decision-making.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

416. “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

417. “Well, I think there’s something wrong with everyone, don’t you?”

— Nicola Yoon

418. “Love can kill you...”

— Nicola Yoon

419. “With those outfits, you two do not deserve music.”

— Nicola Yoon

420. “Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

426. “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

427. “I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.”

— Nicola Yoon

428. “You said that love couldn’t kill me.” “Yes, but it might kill your mother.” She manages a small smile.”

— Nicola Yoon

429. “This country can’t have everything.”

— Nicola Yoon

430. “I’m not sure what that means in this context. Be careful because I may drown? Be careful because I may get sick? Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too? Because there’s no denying it now. I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

— Nicola Yoon

431. “Carla raises a single questioning eyebrow at me. I lower two nonanswering eyebrows back at her.”

— Nicola Yoon

432. “She knew what would happen. There was always going to be someone else. Someone who isn’t sick.”

— Nicola Yoon

433. “I laugh. “How much thinking about this have you been doing?” “A fair amount,” he says, and kisses me again, and it’s more than good. It’s excellent. Stupendous. Phenomenal. Prodigious. Every synonym for excellent ever conceived.”

— Nicola Yoon

434. “She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”

— Nicola Yoon

435. “Promise. The lie you want to keep.”

— Nicola Yoon

436. “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Nicola Yoon

437. “To grow up is to grow apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

438. “My stomach does a little flip thing that I’m realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him.”

— Nicola Yoon

439. “If I cry, everything will be real. I really will have to live this life.”

— Nicola Yoon

440. “It would be better if it did break, better than living with wanting and not having, better than living itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

441. “You weren’t so cold just a minutes ago.”

— Nicola Yoon

442. “I was here. Xavier. X. “It’s you,” I say. “It’s me,” he agrees. “But why?” I ask. “You mean that existentially or what?” He smirks and raises an eyebrow at me, displaying not one but two Classic Romance Guy Characteristics.”

— Nicola Yoon

443. “I wonder if being with him will always feel like a discovery.”

— Nicola Yoon

444. “Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us.”

— Nicola Yoon

445. “Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply.”

— Nicola Yoon

446. “Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

— Nicola Yoon

447. “One of those stars is Daniel. I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them.”

— Nicola Yoon

448. “I’m going to do whatever the world tells me to. I’m going to act like I’m in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I’m going to pretend my future’s wide open, and that anything can happen.”

— Nicola Yoon

449. “Toria haosului spune ca si cea mai mica schimbare in starea initiala poate duce la rezultate extrem de imprevizibile. Un fluture bate din aripi acum si un uragan se formeaza in viitor.”

— Nicola Yoon

450. “She slips her hand into mine and smiles.”

— Nicola Yoon