Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

— Nicola Yoon

Did your parents care that he was white?"" They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me. With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.

— Nicola Yoon

Do you think it’s funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now?” I ask.“Maybe that’s why we dislike them,” she says. “The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

— 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

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

— Nicola Yoon

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate. But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

— Nicola Yoon

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

— Nicola Yoon

Hearts don’t break. It’s just another thing the poets say. Hearts are not made Of Glasser boner any material that couldSplinterOr Fragment Or Shatter. They don’ttrack Into Pieces. They don’tfall Apart. Hearts don’t break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

— Nicola Yoon