Top 100 Yoon Ji Hoo Quotes
#1. Desperation translates into every language.
Nicola Yoon
#2. I do my job," Mikodez said, "because after all the trouble I went to get it, it would be irresponsible not to." He
Yoon Ha Lee
#3. I know there's no such thing as meant-to-be, and yet here I am wondering if maybe I've been wrong.
Nicola Yoon
#5. My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.
Nicola Yoon
#6. Who knew you were this stubborn?" Not me. I didn't know I was this stubborn.
Nicola Yoon
#7. I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it's become my favourite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once
Nicola Yoon
#8. Her face dares me to ask her more, but I've reached my quota of daring things (1 = following cute girl, 2 = yelling at ex-boyfriend of cute girl, 3 = saving life of cute girl, 4 = asking out cute girl) for the day.
Nicola Yoon
#10. We still have to wait. The situation will repeat, we will get tired, but as long as we don't let go of each other's hand, then one day they will recognize that we are one.
Yoon Joon-soo
#11. level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a
Nicola Yoon
#12. he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.
Nicola Yoon
#13. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.
Yoon Ha Lee
#14. Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.
Nicola Yoon
#15. This momentary bridge. The wonder of a shared memory, returned. Of a place once theirs and a life that had already been lived.
Paul Yoon
#16. The smile he gives me is worth living for.
Nicola Yoon
#17. A photograph is a kind of time machine.
Nicola Yoon
#18. about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it.
Nicola Yoon
#19. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#20. One day I will write an ode about kissing. I will call it "Ode to a Kiss".
It will be epic.
Nicola Yoon
#21. You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.
Nicola Yoon
#22. We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything
Nicola Yoon
#23. your world can change in a single moment.
Nicola Yoon
#24. He's trying not to laugh, but the telltale dimple gives it away.
Nicola Yoon
#25. Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything.
Nicola Yoon
#26. The man doesn't look like he belongs in a world of parking tickets and potted begonias and pencil sharpeners. But he can learn, the way you have.
Yoon Ha Lee
#27. He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I've ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future
Nicola Yoon
#28. My stomach does a little flip thing that I'm realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him.
Nicola Yoon
#29. Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.
Nicola Yoon
#30. Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from without, but
Yoon Ha Lee
#31. I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.
Nicola Yoon
#32. If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.
Nicola Yoon
#33. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#34. Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.
Nicola Yoon
#35. There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.
Nicola Yoon
#36. I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.
Nicola Yoon
#37. It's hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn't want you.
Nicola Yoon
#38. I have loved you in your own language, Kaela thought as she picked up her blades, so softly that we never knew it. Let your language be mine; let me cast my own shadows.
Yoon Ha Lee
#39. Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.
Nicola Yoon
#40. I spend that first week--and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something.
Nicola Yoon
#41. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.
Nicola Yoon
#42. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words" -Natasha
Nicola Yoon
#43. I don't know where I'm going, but I have to get to him. I don't know what I'm doing, but I have to protect him.
Nicola Yoon
#44. My body burns where he doesn't touch, and burns where he does.
Nicola Yoon
#45. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#46. Remember that despite the fact that I'm a traitor and mass murderer, one of us is expendable, and it isn't me.
Yoon Ha Lee
#47. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#48. 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
#49. I am really not a girl to fall in love with. For one thing, I don't like temporary, nonprovable things, and romantic love is both temporary and nonprovable.
Nicola Yoon
#50. Why was the boy surprised to find celery growing out of his ears?
Nicola Yoon
#51. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#52. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#53. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#54. I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.
Nicola Yoon
#55. Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for.
Nicola Yoon
#56. Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you're going to make mistakes and break promises, now's the time.
Nicola Yoon
#57. I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you.
Nicola Yoon
#58. I once told Olly that I knew my our heart better than I knew anything else, and it's still true. I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed.
Nicola Yoon
#59. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#60. If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I'd ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I'd be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.
Nicola Yoon
#61. 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
Nicola Yoon
#62. You're kind of a hopeless romantic," I say.
Nicola Yoon
#63. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#64. We're kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.
Nicola Yoon
#65. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#67. 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 and blow in the direction of the wind. I'm going to pretend my future's wide open, and that anything can happen.
Nicola Yoon
#68. A fairytale princess then. Which one are you?Cinderella? Will you turn into a pumpkin if you leave the house? Or Rapunzel? Your hair's pretty long. Just let it down and I'll climp up and rescue you
Nicola Yoon
#69. It's not that Natasha wants to let Daniel go; it's that she has to let go. It isn't possible for her to live in two worlds simultaneously, heart in one place, body in another. She lets go of Daniel to avoid being ripped apart.
Nicola Yoon
#70. Boys come and go, but mothers are forever.
Nicola Yoon
#71. I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.
Lee Yoon-ki
#72. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#73. For my mom and dad, who taught me about dreams and how to catch them
Nicola Yoon
#74. I'm glad you think this is funny," he says. "Come on," I say. "Tragedy is funny." "Are we in a tragedy?" he asks, smiling broadly now. "Of course. Isn't that what life is? We all die at the end.
Nicola Yoon
#75. There's more to life than being alive.
Nicola Yoon
#76. love is just chemicals and coincidence.
Nicola Yoon
#77. I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae ... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.
Yoon Mi-rae
#78. The silence could have swallowed a star.
Yoon Ha Lee
#79. Observable Fact: Families are the worst.
Nicola Yoon
#80. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.
Yoon Ha Lee
#81. The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.
Lee Yoon-ki
#82. I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.
Nicola Yoon
#83. Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.
Nicola Yoon
#84. I've read many, many books involving heartache. Not one has ever described it as little. Soul-shattering and world-destroying yes. Little, no" -Madeline
Nicola Yoon
#85. I say weird but what I mean is epically fucking strange.
Nicola Yoon
#87. You can't persuade someone to love you.
Nicola Yoon
#89. 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.
Nicola Yoon
#90. But time and distance are love's natural enemies.
Nicola Yoon
#92. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#93. Maybe it does bother me,' he says, 'but only peripherally. It's like a buzzing fly, you know? Annoying, but not actually life-threatening.
Nicola Yoon
#94. Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it.
Nicola Yoon
#95. Because war is about people," Jedao said. "Even when you're killing them.
Yoon Ha Lee
#96. There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.
Lee Yoon-ki
#97. Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.
"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.
Nicola Yoon
#98. I don't believe in love" -Natasha
"It's not a religion. It exists whether you believe in it or not" -Daniel
Nicola Yoon
#99. Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.
Nicola Yoon
#100. Our history is too compressed. We're trying to fit a lifetime into a day.
Nicola Yoon
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