Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it’s become my favourite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once.”

— Nicola Yoon

402. “Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”

— Nicola Yoon

403. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

405. “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

406. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

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410. “Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

413. “Imagine, though, if you could just change the right inputs; you could fix things before they went wrong.”

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414. “Everything is nothing.”

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415. “Of all the ways today could’ve gone, I couldn’t have predicted this. But now I’m sure that everything that’s happened today has been leading me to her and us to this moment and this moment to the rest of our lives.”

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416. “In capul meu, stiu c-am mai fost indragostit, dar nu simt asa. Sa fiu indragostit de tine e mai bine decat prima oara. Se simte ca prima si ca ultima oara si ca singura oara, toate odata.”

— Nicola Yoon

417. “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

418. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

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

— Nicola Yoon

423. “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

424. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

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426. “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.”

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427. “Mom said just because a thing ends doesn’t make the thing any less real. Just because everything is different now doesn’t mean we didn’t love each other once. Maybe we will again.”

— Nicola Yoon

428. “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.”

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429. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

430. “The wanting scares me. It’s like a weed that spreads slowly, just beneath your notice. Before you know it, it’s pitted your surfaces and darkened your windows.”

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431. “It’s not a competition if one person can’t even show up for the event.”

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432. “I step up to the platform that it sits on and trail my hands across it. The surface is metal-cold and pockmarked from thousands of tiny impacts. I close my eyes, let my fingers dip in and out of the divots. It’s hard to believe that this hunk of iron is from outer space.”

— Nicola Yoon

433. “Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

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

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435. “How can he be so okay with showing off his heart?”

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

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438. “People who say it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all have never really loved anyone and never really lost anyone either.”

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439. “If everybody thought about the odds, there’d be no rock stars in the first place” -Evie.”

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440. “I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that’s God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”

— Nicola Yoon

441. “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.”

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

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443. “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

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

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445. “He remembered sitting at the breakfast bar and stirring the milk and chocolate together. How the chocolate turned white, and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can’t unmix things no matter how much you might want to.”

— Nicola Yoon

446. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I have to get to him. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have to protect him.”

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447. “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

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

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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. “I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

— Nicola Yoon