“People feel so much. Love is so big and it leaves behind a crater. Even when it's wrong.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me scientifically?" "I would scoff," I say. "A… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“That and the fact that my extreme like for her is clearly unrequited. And love is not love if it’s not requited,… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“All love ends," she says. "Maybe," I say. "But it has to start somewhere.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Love can't kill me." I say, parroting Carla's words. "That's not true," she says "Whoever told you that?” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“One thing I'm certain of: wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“We look at each other and laugh for no reason. Or, not for no reason, but because the world just then seems… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“I grab her hand and pull her toward me. She doesn't resist, and I don't stop pulling until the full lengths of… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars.… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“I've never understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“... I am really not a girl to fall in love with. For one things, I don't like temporary, nonprovable things, and… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“love: a chemical history. ...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Did your parents care that he was white?" "They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“And what about the lovers who spend hours staring into each other's eyes? Is it a display of trust? 'I will let… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“You can’t just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It’s not just a matter of… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Some people you want to get to know and some people you want to know you…For whatever reason, there are people that… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“What are we talking about again?” he asks. I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“We are having a moment I don’t want to be having. When they say the heart wants what it wants, they’re talking… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“According to scientists, there are three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. And, it turns out, each of the stages is… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, THERE ARE three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. And, it turns out, each of the stages is… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“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… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“What did you get?' I lean my head back against his chest. 'Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.' 'Why do people… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“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… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“Maybe he (or she-but who are we kidding? God's definitely a guy. How else to explain war, pestilence, and morning wood?)” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can't see it, the light is still there.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“love: a chemical history. ...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“If the person who's meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then what is there to believe in?” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“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… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“America’s not really a melting pot. It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“And now my life doesn’t make sense anymore. I almost wish I hadn’t met him. How am I supposed to go back to my… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“As if there were no last time And there is no next time And this time is the time that counts.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
