Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

404. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

406. “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

407. “To grow up is to grow apart.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

410. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

414. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

416. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

420. “You can find the meaning of life in a book.”

— Nicola Yoon

421. “Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.”

— Nicola Yoon

422. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

424. “My type is girls. All of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

425. “As if there were no last time And there is no next time And this time is the time that counts.”

— Nicola Yoon

426. “When Archibald and Maggie met in that audition line, they had no idea what they were at the beginning of. They didn’t know that their love of dancing would make a place for others to love it too. Or that their love would branch out into the world and make children and then grandchildren. Or that their love would lead to mine. Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

429. “Everything is nothing.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

431. “It takes three years Natasha’s natural hair to grow in fully. She doesn’t do it to make a political statement. In fact, she liked having her hair straight. In the future, she may mike it straight again. She does it because she wants to try something new. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”

— Nicola Yoon

432. “L’amore apre le porte del mondo.”

— Nicola Yoon

433. “Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

434. “I know how this looks. It looks like we’re bantering, like sparks are flying between us like in witty, old romantic comedies. It looks like the start of something. But I promise you, there are no sparks. Nothing here is on fire. Archibald chuckles. “Well, Evie, this is our grandson, Xavier.” “It’s just X, Gramps,” X says. He gives Maggie a hug.”

— Nicola Yoon

435. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

436. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

438. “God would never hang out here.”

— Nicola Yoon

439. “I want things that I can name, and some things that I can’t. I want this one moment to last forever, but I don’t want to miss all the other moments to come. I want our entire future together, but I want it here and now.”

— Nicola Yoon

440. “My body burns where he doesn’t touch, and burns where he does.”

— Nicola Yoon

441. “Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me.”

— Nicola Yoon

442. “I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body.”

— Nicola Yoon

443. “Sometimes I feel like we’re on opposite sides of a soundproofed glass wall. We can see each other but we can’t hear each other.”

— Nicola Yoon

444. “My heart’s been on my sleeve all day, and it’s pretty bruised up right now.”

— Nicola Yoon

445. “How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”

— Nicola Yoon

446. “Don’t fall in love with me Daniel.”

— Nicola Yoon

447. “All the things that have happened to him, even the bad, have happened for a reason.”

— Nicola Yoon

448. “But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.”

— Nicola Yoon

449. “Here’s what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”

— Nicola Yoon

450. “It’s one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make to lie to yourself.”

— Nicola Yoon