Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “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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404. “It’s not a competition if one person can’t even show up for the event.”

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405. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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412. “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.”

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

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414. “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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415. “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.”

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

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417. “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.”

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

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419. “My type is girls. All of them.”

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420. “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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421. “During the final minute, hurt settles into their bones. It colonizes their bodies, spreads to their tissue and muscles and blood and cells.”

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422. “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.”

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

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424. “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.”

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

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426. “My heart is so full of him.”

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427. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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428. “The thing about my mom’s Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and me.” – Olly Bright.”

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429. “It smells good. You know sometimes in spring when it rains just for like five minutes and then the sun comes out right away and the water’s evaporating and the air is still damp? It smells like that. Really good.”

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430. “The world is casually cruel.”

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431. “It’s not that Daniel wants to let Natasha go. He holds on for as long as he can. But he hearts the strain in her voice across the distance. In her new accent, he hears the cadence of her slipping away from him.”

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432. “Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description.”

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

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434. “We both stop walking to stare up at it. The engine temporarily blots out all other sound. “Paris would be nice,” I say after it’s gone. “Pretty happy right where I am,” he says. I don’t know when he stopped looking up at the sky and started looking at me instead.”

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435. “My butterflies are rioting.”

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436. “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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437. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

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438. “If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

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439. “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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440. “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.”

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441. “I think we’re all connected, everyone on earth.”

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442. “She’s upset with the change she didn’t see coming.”

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443. “Nothing is ever universal.”

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444. “She wishes she could slide her fingertips along the surfaces, memorizing textures and letting the artifacts of other people’s live seep into her.”

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

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

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447. “The moon and the stars are involved. I’m certain of it.”

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

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449. “Maybe that’s why Daniel wants to be a poet. So he can find the right words.”

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450. “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.”

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