Top 500 Nicola Yoon Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It’s so we remember to remember.”

— Nicola Yoon

402. “For whatever reason, there are people that you want to tell your weird, secret thoughts to. You want to show them your pimples and tell them about your braces. You want them to love you because of those things, not in spite of them.”

— Nicola Yoon

403. “The other, secret thing that I don’t say to anyone is this: I’m not sure I’m capable of love. Even temporarily.”

— Nicola Yoon

404. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

408. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

410. “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

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

— Nicola Yoon

412. “But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

— Nicola Yoon

413. “I’m having trouble thinking and looking at her at the same time.”

— Nicola Yoon

414. “You can be cynical all you want, but many a life can be saved by poetry.”

— Nicola Yoon

415. “Area Teen Pretty Sure Day Can’t Get Worse, Is Wrong About That.”

— Nicola Yoon

416. “Besides, I try not to want things I can’t have.”

— Nicola Yoon

417. “Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I’m being reassured with every breath that I’m more than just alive. I’m living.”

— Nicola Yoon

418. “We can’t always get what we want.”

— Nicola Yoon

419. “Her backpack’s in her lap and she’s hugging it to her chest like it might get up and walk away at any second.”

— Nicola Yoon

420. “Be brave. Life is a gift.”

— Nicola Yoon

421. “Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”

— Nicola Yoon

422. “Everyone loses something sometime.”

— Nicola Yoon

423. “I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed.”

— Nicola Yoon

424. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

425. “Maybe I won’t get sick,” I whisper. “That’s right,” she says, and hope spreads through me like a virus.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

427. “Do you girls really find it so easy to lie to your mamas?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

429. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

430. “America, the family name is called the last name. Dae Hyun said it showed that Americans think the individual is more important than the family.”

— Nicola Yoon

431. “That and the fact that my extreme like for her is clearly unrequited. And love is not love if it’s not requited, right?”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

435. “I decide I like people who are generous with their laughter.”

— Nicola Yoon

436. “Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon

437. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

440. “Nothing is ever universal.”

— Nicola Yoon

441. “You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

442. “The smile he gives me is worth living for.”

— Nicola Yoon

443. “It doesn’t matter what she looks like. It doesn’t matter if she’s long or short legged. It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. It doesn’t matter if she’s pretty or not. It matters that she feels the sun on her skin.”

— Nicola Yoon

444. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

446. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

447. “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.”

— Nicola Yoon

448. “I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential. If I could take it apart and understand it then maybe I could make just exactly the right change.”

— Nicola Yoon

449. “Separation is not fatal.”

— Nicola Yoon

450. “It’s not hair dye being sold in these bottles, it’s happiness.”

— Nicola Yoon