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.

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...

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

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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

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You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It's got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

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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.