Top 100 Nicola Yoon Quotes
#1. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.
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#3. For my mom and dad, who taught me about dreams and how to catch them
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#4. We're not meant to be, Daniel. I'm an undocumented immigrant. I'm being deported. Today is my last day in America. Tomorrow I'll be gone.
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#5. 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.
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#6. George E. Johnson marketed the "relaxer," a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the black hair care industry is worth more than one billion dollars annually.
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#7. Madeline: Form of poetry.
Olly: that assumes that I have one
Madeline: You're not a heathen.
Olly: limericks
Madeline: You are a heathen. I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
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#8. You're kind of a hopeless romantic," I say.
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#9. In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I
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#10. In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean. So they would know where they were from. So they would know where they were going.
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#11. Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for.
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#12. Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.
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#13. 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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#14. I don't believe in love" -Natasha
"It's not a religion. It exists whether you believe in it or not" -Daniel
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#15. Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it.
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#16. But time and distance are love's natural enemies.
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#17. love is just chemicals and coincidence.
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#18. I say weird but what I mean is epically fucking strange.
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#19. I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.
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#20. Observable Fact: Families are the worst.
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#21. Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything.
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#22. You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.
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#23. I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York's. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel.
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#24. A photograph is a kind of time machine.
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#25. Desperation translates into every language.
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#26. he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.
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#28. My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.
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#30. It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.
And I'm not a satellite. I'm space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him.
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#31. We watch the way the water pulls back and turns over and beats against the sand, trying to wear the earth away. And even though it doesn't succeed, it pulls back and pounds the shore again and again, as if there were no last time and there is no next time and this time is the time that counts.
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#32. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words" -Natasha
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#33. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.
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#34. I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.
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#35. There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.
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#36. It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.
In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.
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#37. If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.
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#38. Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.
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#39. The thing about my mom's Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and me." - Olly Bright
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#40. He meant it and he didn't. Both. At the same time.
'It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over...You don't get to regret us.
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#41. Rejection was like sandpaper. His skin sloughed away under its constant onslaught. After a while, Samuel wasn't sure which would last long: himself or his dreams.
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#42. a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should
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#43. Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.
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#44. ...no one can put a price on losing everything.
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#45. Wanting leads to more wanting. Desire has no end.
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#46. Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply.
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#47. Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being rule by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true.
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#48. 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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#49. Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.
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#50. How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to.
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#51. How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?
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#52. The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down" -Daniel
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#53. 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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#54. Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.
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#55. 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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#56. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over.
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#57. The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.
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#58. 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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#59. You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.
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#60. Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.
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#61. Observable fact : I don't believe in magic.
Observable fact : We are magic.
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#62. I want things that I can name, and some things that I can't. I want this one moment to last forever, but I don't want to miss all the other moments to come. I want our entire future together, but I want it here and now.
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#63. It's hard to love someone who doesn't love you back
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#64. He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who like poetry.
But I'm not dead inside either.
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#65. This country try to take everything from you. Your language, your food, your children.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
This country can't have everything.
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#66. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.
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#67. It's better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.
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#68. My dad's primary emotion is regret. It's like he made some giant mistake in his past, like he took a wrong turn, and instead of ending up wherever he was supposed to be, he ended up in this life [...] instead.
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#69. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.
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#70. Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Ever since Olly came into my life there've been two Maddys: the one who lives through books and doesn't want to die, and the one who lives and suspects that death will be a small price to pay for it.
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#73. I think we're all connected, everyone on earth.
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#74. I love you, Maddy." "I love you, Olly. I loved you before I knew you.
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#75. The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.
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#76. You'd be broke,' I tell him.
'Broke with money but rich with words,' he counters immediately.
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#77. Observable Fact: People aren't logical.
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#78. 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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#79. What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me scientifically?"
"I would scoff," I say. "A Lot
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#80. In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.
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#81. Natasha doesn't say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn't have to mean forever.
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#83. Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.
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#84. No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to.
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#85. [His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight.
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#86. If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. In the book of Maddy, all the chapters are the same.
Until Olly.
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#88. once lived a girl in a bubble who i suspected was nothing but trouble still i gave her my heart but she blew it apart and left me with nothing but rubble
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#89. All of which isn't to say that Jeremy Fitzgerald did the right thing or the wrong thing. It's only to say this: love always changes everything.
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#90. Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.
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#91. You're not living if you're not regretting.
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#93. You have enough things to be afraid of. Love can't kill you.
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#94. This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.
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#95. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don
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#96. Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. 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 what it does to a body. To a mind.
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#97. Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things.
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#100. Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster
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