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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
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
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
For my mom and dad, who taught me about dreams and how to catch them -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.
But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Aside from my mom, Carla, and my tutors, the world barely know I exist. I mean, I exist online. I have online friends and my Tumblr book reviews, but that's not the same as being a real person who can be visited by strange boys bearing Bundt cakes. -- Nicola Yoon
One day I will write an ode about kissing. I will call it "Ode to a Kiss".
It will be epic. -- Nicola Yoon
I feel as if I've never been touched before. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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
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
There's more to life than being alive. -- Nicola Yoon
Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results. A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future. -- Nicola Yoon
I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution to everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what's true. -- Nicola Yoon
Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment. -- Nicola Yoon
[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. -- Nicola Yoon
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
But time and distance are love's natural enemies. -- Nicola Yoon
You can't just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It's not just a matter of choosing a couple of people and making them ask each other some questions, and then love blossoms. The moon and the stars are involved. I'm certain of it. -- 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 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
No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to. -- Nicola Yoon
Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning. -- 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 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
Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to. -- Nicola Yoon
Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either. -- Nicola Yoon
As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future...It's like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising. -- Nicola Yoon
I don't believe in love."
"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Natasha doesn't say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn't have to mean forever. -- Nicola Yoon
You don't exist if no one can see you. -- 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
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
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
Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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. -- Nicola Yoon
We are lips and arms and legs and bodies entangled. He raises himself above me and we are wordless, and then we are joined and moving silently. We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe. -- Nicola Yoon
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. -- Nicola Yoon
Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings. -- Nicola Yoon
There's a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's closer to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them right away, but it's inevitable that you will. -- Nicola Yoon
My heart's been on my sleeve all day, and it's pretty bruised up right now. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing. -- Nicola Yoon
I'm kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I'm like that, except with crying. -- Nicola Yoon
Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. -- Nicola Yoon
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
I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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
Having dreams never killed anybody. -- Nicola Yoon
My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. -- Nicola Yoon
His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt. -- Nicola Yoon
She opens her palm and she's going to take my hand. She's supposed to take my hand. We're meant to walk through this world together. I see it in her eyes. We are meant to be. I'm certain of this in a way I'm not certain about anything else.
But she doesn't take my hand. She walks on. -- Nicola Yoon
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
She does it simply because it looks beautiful. -- Nicola Yoon
Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
The smile he gives me is worth living for. -- Nicola Yoon
Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- 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
It's not your fault. Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. -- Nicola Yoon
I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you. -- Nicola Yoon
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
People in love want everyone else to be in love. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Considering what the future may hold, jumping off this cliff doesn't seem so scary at all. -- Nicola Yoon
Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary) -- Nicola Yoon
love is not love if it's not requited, right? -- 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 what it does to the body. To a mind. -- Nicola Yoon
that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen -- Nicola Yoon
I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words. -- Nicola Yoon
You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit. -- Nicola Yoon
I think we're all connected, everyone on earth. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
Desperation translates into every language. -- Nicola Yoon
You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both. -- Nicola Yoon
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
...all teenagers do this. All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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
The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one. -- Nicola Yoon
We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Love always changes everything. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
It's hard to love someone who doesn't love you back -- Nicola Yoon
A Tale of Two Kisses. To Kiss a Mockingbird. As I Lay Kissing. -- Nicola Yoon
You have enough things to be afraid of. Love can't kill you. -- Nicola Yoon
Love can kill you and I'd rather be alive than out there living. -- Nicola Yoon
his dad seemed to love Olly and Kara and his mom a little less than he did before. And the less he seemed to love them, the more they tried to become more lovable. -- Nicola Yoon
I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking. -- Nicola Yoon
Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too. -- Nicola Yoon
Trying not to smile only makes you smile more. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
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
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
Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it. -- Nicola Yoon
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
He's trying not to laugh, but the telltale dimple gives it away. -- Nicola Yoon
People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die. -- Nicola Yoon
A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again. -- Nicola Yoon
Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead? -- Nicola Yoon
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
Well, I think there's something wrong with everyone, don't you? -- Nicola Yoon
Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for. -- Nicola Yoon
It's a long life to spend doing something you're only meh about. -- Nicola Yoon
The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down. -- Nicola Yoon
How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I'm missing? -- Nicola Yoon
Madeline: I'm not a princess.
Madeline: And I don't need rescuing.
Olly: that's ok. i'm not prince.
Madeline: You think I'm pretty?
Olly: for a fairytale ghost sky princess? definately -- Nicola Yoon
Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything. -- Nicola Yoon
His eyes are a clear, summer-blue lake that I can't see the bottom of. -- Nicola Yoon
Observable Fact: People aren't logical. -- Nicola Yoon
You can't persuade someone to love you. -- Nicola Yoon
Time is precious, she says, and it's rude to waste someone else's. -- Nicola Yoon
Love won't kill you.
-Carla -- Nicola Yoon
Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. -- Nicola Yoon
We're kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me scientifically?"
"I would scoff," I say. "A Lot -- Nicola Yoon
I don't believe in love" -Natasha
"It's not a religion. It exists whether you believe in it or not" -Daniel -- Nicola Yoon
Boys come and go, but mothers are forever. -- Nicola Yoon
He's much too smart to fall for this, but he wants it to be true. He wants it to be true more than he wants the truth. -- Nicola Yoon
Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you. -- Nicola Yoon
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it." Her -- Nicola Yoon
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 -- Nicola Yoon
For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have. -- Nicola Yoon
If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country. -- Nicola Yoon
Area Teen Pretty Sure Day Can't Get Worse, Is Wrong About That -- Nicola Yoon
You're afraid of becoming your dad. You don't want to choose the wrong thing, so you don't choose anything at all. -- Nicola Yoon
It's not a competition if one person can't even show up for the event. -- Nicola Yoon
ahh, calculus. the mathematics of change -- Nicola Yoon
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
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. -- Nicola Yoon
love is just chemicals and coincidence. -- Nicola Yoon
level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a -- Nicola Yoon
You can get lost in you own mind, like you gone to another country. All you thoughts in another language and you can't read the signs even though they everywhere all around you. -- Nicola Yoon
your world can change in a single moment. -- 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. And just like that, everything changes. -- Nicola Yoon
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
You're not living if you're not regretting. -- Nicola Yoon
America is the land of opportunity. His children will have more than he once did. -- 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 me." - Olly Bright -- Nicola Yoon
a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. I'm looking at him and he's still not looking -- Nicola Yoon
You said that love couldn't kill me." "Yes, but it might kill your mother." She manages a small smile. -- Nicola Yoon
He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool? -- Nicola Yoon
It's hard to come for someplace or someone you're not proud of. -- Nicola Yoon
One of those stars is Daniel. I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them. -- Nicola Yoon
This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over. -- Nicola Yoon
I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part. -- Nicola Yoon
Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love. -- Nicola Yoon
To grow up is to grow apart. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude. -- Nicola Yoon
Our history is too compressed. We're trying to fit a lifetime into a day. -- Nicola Yoon
Stars are important," I say, laughing.
"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two. -- Nicola Yoon
This country can't have everything. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse. -- Nicola Yoon
peaceful and strangely euphoric. -- 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 already dead star. -- Nicola Yoon
...no one can put a price on losing everything. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
Observable Fact: Families are the worst. -- Nicola Yoon
I'll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him. -- Nicola Yoon
Isn't growing apart a part of growing up? -- Nicola Yoon
I'm trying to see Olly in his darkened room when the Bundt leaps from the sill and plunges to the ground.
I gasp. Did the cake just commit suicide? -- Nicola Yoon
There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me. -- Nicola Yoon
I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body. I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion. -- Nicola Yoon
he can't see past his own history to let us have ours. -- Nicola Yoon
My body burns where he doesn't touch, and burns where he does. -- Nicola Yoon
It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box. -- Nicola Yoon
about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it. -- Nicola Yoon
I am not a princess. And I don't need rescuing. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
Why was the boy surprised to find celery growing out of his ears? -- Nicola Yoon
Wanting leads to more wanting. Desire has no end. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Love is everything. Everything. -- Nicola Yoon
Practicality is overrated. -- Nicola Yoon
You'd be broke,' I tell him.
'Broke with money but rich with words,' he counters immediately. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply. -- Nicola Yoon
Beware the Queen of Hearts. She'll have your head. -- Nicola Yoon
You're kind of a hopeless romantic," I say. -- Nicola Yoon
a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should -- Nicola Yoon
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
I say weird but what I mean is epically fucking strange. -- Nicola Yoon
My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don't want sunlight on it. I don't want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again. -- Nicola Yoon
Observable fact : I don't believe in magic.
Observable fact : We are magic. -- Nicola Yoon
oh jesus. that is not a good joke Madeline: Made you smile though. Olly: yeah it did -- Nicola Yoon
It's hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn't want you. -- Nicola Yoon
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. -- Nicola Yoon
You're born. You get thrown onto the crazy contraption called life that just goes around and around. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. -- Nicola Yoon
Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference. -- Nicola Yoon
Maybe I'm holding out hope that one day, someday, things will change. -- Nicola Yoon
interested in why people feel like they have to believe in God. Why can't it just be science? Science is -- Nicola Yoon
Doomed love is a part of life. -- Nicola Yoon
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
Be brave. Life is a gift. -- Nicola Yoon
Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force. -- Nicola Yoon
You can find the meaning of life in a book. -- Nicola Yoon
I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories? -- Nicola Yoon
I love you, Maddy." "I love you, Olly. I loved you before I knew you. -- Nicola Yoon
My heart is so full of him. -- Nicola Yoon
How am I suppose to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who Reads? -- Nicola Yoon
The universe stops and waits for us. -- Nicola Yoon
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 -- Nicola Yoon
But for that thank you.
The fact that someone saw her was the beginning. -- Nicola Yoon
Life is hard, honey. Everyone finds a way. -- Nicola Yoon
Spoiler alert: Boys are savages. -- Nicola Yoon
I spend that first week--and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something. -- Nicola Yoon
Even I'm surprised by how much I've been feeling for her all day. The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down. I -- Nicola Yoon
The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down" -Daniel -- Nicola Yoon
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
Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too. -- Nicola Yoon
Be more specific, please. Olly: jesus. girls. ocean blue -- Nicola Yoon
seriously. "Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything.
-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything -- Nicola Yoon
I'm not usually a stalker, and I'm not following her, exactly. I'm maintaining a noncreepy, half-block distance between us. -- Nicola Yoon
You should try it again. The meaning changes every time you read it. -- Nicola Yoon
I'm on my way home. I'll remain trapped there forever. I'm alive and don't want to be. -- Nicola Yoon
the norebang we could pretend, but not out here. It's one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make -- Nicola Yoon
Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words" -Natasha -- Nicola Yoon
You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself. -- Nicola Yoon
Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire. -- Nicola Yoon
A photograph is a kind of time machine. -- Nicola Yoon
How is it possible to have an emotion and its opposite at the same time? -- 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 good taste. -- Nicola Yoon
Thanks, Universe! -- Nicola Yoon
I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate. -- Nicola Yoon
Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall. -- Nicola Yoon
Love makes people crazy. Loss of love makes people crazy. -- Nicola Yoon
How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins? -- Nicola Yoon
I'll be a great doctor with excellent bedside skills.
I'll be perfectly happy.
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary. -- Nicola Yoon
Names are powerful things. -- Nicola Yoon
It's soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together -- Nicola Yoon
The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do. -- Nicola Yoon
Who knew you were this stubborn?" Not me. I didn't know I was this stubborn. -- Nicola Yoon
Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don -- Nicola Yoon