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

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402. “Separation is not fatal.”

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

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404. “I gasped against the pain of the thought, against the end of something barely even begun.”

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405. “Is it always like that?” I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It’s never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.”

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

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407. “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.”

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

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

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410. “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.”

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411. “I’ve read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read. I’ve read more. Believe me.”

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412. “But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.”

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413. “We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”

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414. “I’ve wanted to tell her about him for so long, but now I’m not sure where to begin. My heart is so full of him.”

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415. “Do you want a girlfriend or are you one of those guys who likes to date around?” “I’m just waiting for the right one to come along,” he says.”

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416. “They tried to stop me. They said it wasn’t worth my life, but I said that it was my life, and it was up to me to decide what it was worth. I said I was going to go and either I was going to die or I was going to get a better life.”

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417. “To love is human. We can’t help ourselves.”

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418. “I spend that first week – and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something.”

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419. “I wonder how his dad has managed to live in the world all his life without knowing what was precious in it.”

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420. “Once you become part of the world, the world becomes a part of you, too.”

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421. “Am I in your head?’, I ask her.”

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422. “Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”

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423. “Love always changes everything.”

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424. “The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.”

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425. “Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”

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426. “I feel as if I’ve never been touched before.”

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427. “Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they’re the only thing the Internet is good for.”

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428. “My plan is to get us to the roof so that we can make out in privacy.”

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429. “Okay,” I say. “I’m leaving now.” He raises a single eyebrow and I almost laugh. For a second, I feel like I’m a character in one of my old romance books. Raising a single eyebrow is such a Classic Romance Guy Characteristic.”

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430. “Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.”

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431. “You’re born. You get thrown onto the crazy contraption called life that just goes around and around.”

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432. “What did you get?′ I lean my head back against his chest. ‘Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.’ ‘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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433. “Where’s the proof of the life I have lived?”

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434. “Se uno non ha rimpianti, significa che non sta vivendo.”

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435. “There’s no denying it now. I’m in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

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436. “I’ll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him.”

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437. “The humuhumunukunukuapuaa.”

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

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

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

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

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443. “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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444. “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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445. “Do you have any idea what it’s like not to fit in anywhere?”

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

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

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

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

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