“Everything” by Nicola Yoon

How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness?

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 in Everything

I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it's become my favorite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once.

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I'm missing?

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

About Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon (born 1972) is a Jamaican-American author. She is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times best seller and the basis of a 2017 film of the same name. In 2016, she released The Sun Is Also a Star, a novel that was adapted to a 2019 film of the same name.

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