David Yoon > Quotes

“People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Humanity's greatest strength - and also the reason for its ultimate downfall - is its ability to normalize even the bizarre.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Laughter is the music of the deep cosmos connecting all human beings that says all the things mere words cannot.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“If you have the will to do something, and you keep at it, and you don't give up, you can do anything. And there's no greater will than the will to love who you want.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“love is a belief mutually held. As soon as that belief fades on either end, then poof, the whole thing falls face-flat like a tug-of-war suddenly gone one-sided.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“If wall of oobleck block your way,
don't punch and slap and kick all day,
Just hold your breath and close your eyes
and simply ease yourself inside.
Walk slowly through the dark, don't fear,
For someday you'll be far from here.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Nothing is just any one single thing. In fact, what starts out as one thing can turn out to be something completely different.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“People, I realized, rooted for teams not necessarily because one was somehow fundamentally better than the other. They did it mostly just to belong. Because it was nice to belong to something, or someone.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“Every superhero has an origin story. Every villain has an origin story. Every loser has an origin story, too.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“I had a thing I called the Post-Encounter Energy Scan (PEES). After hanging out with someone, you took a moment to gauge how your body felt. If you felt tired and depleted by the encounter, you should probably not expose yourself to that person again. If you felt energized, you should increase your exposure to that person.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“Because love is more terrifying than anything. Love is a mighty blue hand coming straight for you out of the sky. All you can do is surrender yourself and pray you don’t fall to your death.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Okay is my prayer.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“People can code switch to confuse others, express dominance or submission, or disguise themselves.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Sometimes I feel like I’m just appearing in the same place. Again and again. Just alternate realities in an infinite multiverse.”

Up until this point in my young life I had never heard anything more romantic.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“It killed me that people had to cancel their dreams for endless toil, unless of course we somehow managed to pull ourselves out of these late-stage capitalist dark ages and into a Star Trek (TNG) future blessed with a universal basic income and sweet jumpsuits.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“You can run across a big trough of oobleck, if for some reason you (a) have a big enough trough lying around and (b) enough oobleck to fill it.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“My cynicism, I realized, was my way of removing myself from the equation so that I could not get hurt.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“Nerds,' says Joy.
We look at her like, So?”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“Everyone is part of the problem, and everyone is part of the solution, and that’s what makes everything so infuriating.”
― David Yoon

“At the airport, they hand out title deeds by ethnicity. So the Greeks get diners, the Chinese get laundromats, and the Koreans get liquor stores.”
― David Yoon

“The only way to learn who you are is by copying someone else first.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“Akiko was referring to a presidential election in the year 2016, where agents from the country of Russia manipulated public opinion through social media, hacked into opposition emails, and blackmailed politicians with lurid surveillance sex tapes to successfully engineer the election of a puppet president in the country of the United States of America.”
― David Yoon, Version Zero

“Oh, Frank. Just listen to me and don't laugh. I got all dressed up today. I was so nervous. I was scared out of my mind. Because all I could think was, what if I got all dressed up, and what if it was all just for you, and it turned out you didn't love me back?”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“My god, Los Angeles was an ugly city.

But my god, Los Angeles was still cool as hell.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“Pop is not music. Pop is celebrity. Fabricated personas that are all style, no substance. Pop is a celebration of fakeness. Artifice is the only cultural currency left, now that the internet has erased all contextual borders.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated”
― David Yoon

“The internet is the world’s biggest men’s bathroom graffiti wall. A perfect and frictionless outlet for insanity.”
― David Yoon, Version Zero

“Flies are the only creature named after their main mode of mobility.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“If there were no shame, would we be freer? Or just descend into chaos?”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song