Quotes by Nicola Yoon

I know shes 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.

But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make

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.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. The moment that answered the question, How did I get here?But its never just one moment. Its a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe theres a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you dont.

Everythings a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Ollys hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we cant have both.

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.

He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing Ive ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future

Who reads? Not that I begrudge my life in book. All I know about the world Ive learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Ollys lips against mine.

If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

He says theyre not his type, but I dont really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?

Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.

Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. Theres more to life than being alive.

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.

[His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like hed said. Its strange because of course Id known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight.

Love wont kill you.-Carla

This is the life youre living. Its not temporary and its not pretend and theres no do-over.

The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.