“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“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, quote from Everything, Everything
“You're not living if you're not regretting.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“prom·ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. - es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.
In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, 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, quote from Everything, Everything
“You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“What colour are your eyes?
Olly (O): blue
Madeline (M): Be more specific please
O: jesus. girls. ocean blue
M: Atlantic or Pacific
O: atlantic. What colour are yours?
M: Chocolate brown.
O: More specific please
M: 75% cacao butter, dark chocolate brown
O: hehe. nice”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“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, quote from Everything, Everything
“I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amazing: we change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us. 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, quote from Everything, Everything
“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, quote from Everything, Everything
“I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. 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, quote from Everything, Everything
“For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“There's more to life than being alive.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“as•ymp•tote (ˈasəm(p)ˌtōt) n. pl. -s. 1. A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don't want sunlight on it. I don't want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. In the book of Maddy, all the chapters are the same.
Until Olly.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“How am I suppose 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, quote from Everything, Everything
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“David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after his birth (to let the doctor know he was breathing), then stopped abruptly, probably out of politeness.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“leaders.’ Nebe snorted and went back round his desk. ‘You’re going to have to watch your mouth, Bernie,’ he said, half-amused. ‘Get to the funny bit.’ ‘Well, it’s this. A number of recent reports, complaints if you like, made to Kripo by those related to institutionalized people leads me to suspect that some sort of mercy-killing is already being unofficially practised.’ I leant forward and grasped the bridge of my nose. ‘Do you ever get headaches? I get headaches. It’s smell that really sets them off. Paint smells pretty bad. So does formaldehyde in the mortuary. But the worst are those rotten pissing places you get where the dozers and rum-sweats sleep rough. That’s a smell I can recall in my worst nightmares. You know, Arthur, I thought I knew every bad smell there was in this city. But that’s last month’s shit fried with last year’s eggs.’ Nebe pulled open a drawer and took out a bottle and two glasses. He said nothing as he poured a couple of large ones. I threw it back and waited for the fiery spirit to seek out what was left of my heart and stomach. I nodded and let him pour me another. I said: ‘Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, you find out that they’ve always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.’ I drained the second glass and then surveyed its empty shape. ‘Thanks for telling me straight, Arthur.’ I dragged myself to my feet. ‘And thanks for the warmer.’ ‘Please keep me informed about your suspect,’ he said. ‘You might consider letting a couple of your men work a friend-and-foe shift on him. No rough stuff, just a bit of the old-fashioned psychological pressure. You know the sort of thing I mean. Incidentally, how are you getting on with your team? Everything working out there? No resentments, or anything like that?’ I could have sat down again and given him a list of”
― Philip Kerr, quote from Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
“If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, quote from Enemies: A Love Story
“One never really knew just how taxing pain was till one was free of it and could feel the difference.”
― Kristen Britain, quote from Mirror Sight
“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess
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