Quotes by Nicola Yoon

Love is the most powerful thing in the universe. Why would you ever trade it for fear?

Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysanthemum

I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely…must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it

Stars are important," I say, laughing. "Sure, but why not more poems about the sun?

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference

I don’t believe in love." “It’s not a religion,” he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not

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

I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing

You’re not living if you’re not regretting

Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start

Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself

Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it

Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything

Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love

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

Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you