Nicola Yoon - Quodid

About

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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.

Quotes from Nicola Yoon

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

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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

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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.

—Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star

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 love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical.

—Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star

How can this be the same day? How can all these people be going about their lives totally oblivious to what's been happening to mine? Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.

—Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star

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

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

Books

Nicola Yoon has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Everything
The Sun Is Also a Star