Nicola Yoon Quotes

“prom·ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. - es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws like is losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“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, Everything, Everything

“Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when word means both things. Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“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, Everything, Everything

“Love always changes everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Into all lives a little turbulence must fall”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Call me cynical, call me cold-hearted, but I don't believe in just knowing and love at first sight. I just don't believe that's love. Love is knowing someone's flaws, habits and pet peeves; having to deal with their grumbling after a bad day; the weird quirks that only surface after several months of being together; living with their morning breath and farts. It's not that gushy, obsessive, in-the-moment feeling. That's a crush. And sure, they can hurt, but you'll get over them. It's not destiny.”
― Emily May

“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, Everything, Everything

“We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Well, I think there's something wrong with everyone, don't you?”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“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, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule.
- The sun is also a star”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“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, Everything, Everything

“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, Everything, Everything

“My body burns where he doesn't touch, and burns where he does.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I think we're all connected, everyone on earth.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“You're born. You get thrown onto the crazy contraption called life that just goes around and around.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does you? Even the universe has a beginning.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“La vida es un regalo; no te olvides de vivirla.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Promesa: Mentira que querías cumplir.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“No one can put a price on losing everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It's hard to come for someplace or someone you're not proud of.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to. School cafeteria out of your favorite pastry today? It must be because the universe is trying to keep you on your diet.. Thanks, Universe! You missed your train? Maybe the train’s going to explode in the tunnel, or Patient Zero for some horrible bird flu (waterfowl, goose, pterodactyl) is on that train, and thanks goodness you weren’t on it after all. Thanks, Universe! No one bothers to follow up with destiny, though. The cafeteria just forgot there was another bow in the back, and you got a slice of cake from your friend anyway. You fumed while waiting for another train, but one came along eventually. No one died on the train you missed. No one so much as sneezed. We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we’re just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don’t mean anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It takes three years Natasha's natural hair to grow in fully. She doesn't do it to make a political statement. In fact, she liked having her hair straight. In the future, she may mike it straight again. She does it because she wants to try something new. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“This country can't have everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Every ocean deserves to be seen by you. (Olly in Everything, Everything)”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything