Nicola Yoon

“An universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”

— Nicola Yoon

“How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”

— Nicola Yoon

“Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule. - The sun is also a star”

— Nicola Yoon

“It's hard to come for someplace or someone you're not proud of.”

— Nicola Yoon

“All love ends," she says. "Maybe," I say. "But it has to start somewhere.”

— Nicola Yoon

“But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”

— Nicola Yoon

“I didn't think you were real". "That's OK. Some day's I'm not.”

— Nicola Yoon

“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

“He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an…

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

“People are staring at us', I say. 'It's because you're so beautiful', he says back, without missing a beat.”

— Nicola Yoon

“I get a kind of déjà vu, but instead of feeling like I’m repeating something in the past, it feels like I’m…

— Nicola Yoon

“Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws like is losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in…

— Nicola Yoon

“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

“Dar oricand se poate intampla ceva. Siguranta nu inseamna totul. Viata inseamna mai mult decat sa traiesti.”

— Nicola Yoon

“Do you think it’s funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now?” I ask.…

— Nicola Yoon

“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…

— Nicola Yoon

“AND IT’S THE wanting that pulls me back down to earth hard. The wanting scares me. It’s like a weed that spreads…

— Nicola Yoon

“What did you get?' I lean my head back against his chest. 'Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.' 'Why…

— Nicola Yoon

“In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are…

— Nicola Yoon

“No one wants to believe that life is random. My dad says he doesn’t know where my cynicism comes from, but I’m…

— Nicola Yoon

“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…

— Nicola Yoon

“Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell“Sometimes you do…

— Nicola Yoon

“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon,…

— Nicola Yoon

“When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

“I’m sorry that you’re sick.” “It’s not your fault.” “I know, but I wish that I could give you more than this.”

— Nicola Yoon

“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never…

— Nicola Yoon

“He bumps me lightly with his shoulder and then steadies me with his hand on my back. I like the feel of…

— Nicola Yoon

“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

“Giant Bag of D*cks Masquerades as a Teenage Boy, Fools Exactly No One. Charlie is a giant bag of d*cks that I'd…

— Nicola Yoon

“Everything’s different and the same. I’m still Maddy. Olly’s still Olly. But we’re both more somehow. I know him in a new…

— Nicola Yoon

“he says it gently, but I can feel a pained history behind the words. Kids can be cruel to each other. To…

— Nicola Yoon

“HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT REASONABLE creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a…

— Nicola Yoon

“Love can't kill me." I say, parroting Carla's words. "That's not true," she says "Whoever told you that?”

— Nicola Yoon

“For every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice.”

— Nicola Yoon

“It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of…

— Nicola Yoon

“It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions -forward and backward- and what happens here…

— Nicola Yoon

“... I am really not a girl to fall in love with. For one things, I don't like temporary, nonprovable things, and…

— Nicola Yoon

“I once told Olly that I knew my own heart better than I knew anything else, and it’s still true. I know…

— Nicola Yoon