Quotes From "Everything Everything" By Nicola Yoon

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

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 out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life. Nicola Yoon

Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcy Madeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy?Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn't love anybody Madeline: She must love somebody. I'm sure she loves you Olly: what's so great about darcy? Madeline: That's not a serious question Olly: he's a snob Madeline: But he overcomes it and eventually realizes that character matters more than class! He's a man open to learning life's lessons! Also, he's completely gorgeous and noble and brooding and poetic. Did I mention gorgeous? Also, he loves Elizabeth beyond all reason. Nicola Yoon

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry? One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day. Nicola Yoon

I dream that I run away from home taking the bot I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and that I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room with the boy that loves me and that I dream that I've run away from home taking the boy I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room and that I dream about the life I'm already living. Nicola Yoon

I almost wish I hadn't met him. How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who Reads? Nicola Yoon

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes. Nicola Yoon

Love is worth everything. Everything. Nicola Yoon

A photograph is a kind of time machine. Nicola Yoon

O-cean (ˈōSHÉâ„¢n) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier] Nicola Yoon

When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil. Or a chain mail-wearing, sword swinging dragon slayer. It was fun to imagine those things because I already knew who I was. Now I don't know anything. I don't know who I'm supposed to be in my new world. . Nicola Yoon

I know she's 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. Nicola Yoon

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

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 it's never just one moment. It's a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don't. Nicola Yoon

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. Nicola Yoon

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can't have both. Nicola Yoon

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

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

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. Nicola Yoon

Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift. Nicola Yoon

Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive. Nicola Yoon

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. Nicola Yoon

[His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight. Nicola Yoon

Love won't kill you.- Carla Nicola Yoon

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

His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt. Nicola Yoon

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me. Nicola Yoon

A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again. Nicola Yoon

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon