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. Furthermore, 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. Furthermore, I dream that I saw the ocean, and it was endless, and I could not find the end of it. Furthermore, I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room and that I dream about the life I'm already living.

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Nicola Yoon

If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

— Nicola Yoon

I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.

— 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 muscle like any other. It can hurt.

— Nicola Yoon

I’m kind of a contagion dryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying.

— 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

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

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

I've never understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms in by body align themselves with the atoms in his.

— Nicola Yoon