Nicola Yoon

“They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know…

— Nicola Yoon

“Love is worth the ultimate sacrifice.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

“He will hold her and wonder, very briefly, about the future that loving her will cost him.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

“Is it always like that?', I ask, breathless. 'No', he says. 'It's never like that'. I hear the wonder in his voice.…

— 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

“If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every…

— Nicola Yoon

“I tell you, when I left my house that night I never felt more free. Even now, in all the time that…

— Nicola Yoon

“In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have…

— Nicola Yoon

“Sincerity is sexy, and my cynical heart notices.”

— Nicola Yoon

“L’amore apre le porte del mondo.”

— Nicola Yoon

“I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.”

— 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

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

— 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's tired, but not the kind of tired that sleeping can fix”

— Nicola Yoon

“Separation is not fatal.”

— Nicola Yoon

“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”

— Nicola Yoon

“It takes three years Natasha's natural hair to grow in fully. She doesn't do it to make a political statement. In fact,…

— Nicola Yoon

“You weren't so cold just a minutes ago”

— Nicola Yoon

“Observable fact : I don't believe in magic. Observable fact : We are magic.”

— 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

“The thing about my mom's Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and…

— Nicola Yoon

“George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the…

— Nicola Yoon