“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“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, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Stars are important," I say, laughing.
"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“I don't believe in love."
"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“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, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ in terms of sheer beauty. 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, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“People make mistakes all the time. Small ones, like you get in the wrong checkout line. The one with the lady with a hundred coupons and a checkbook.
Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead of pursuing you passion.
Sometimes you make big ones.
You give up.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that's God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“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, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Observable Fact: I don't believe in magic.
Observable Fact: We are magic.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from 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. I can't imagine this becoming old and boring. I can't imagine not wanting to hear what she has to say.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite 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, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“We're kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“It’s hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn’t want you.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“The universe stops and waits for us.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“I know there’s no such thing as meant-to-be, and yet here I am wondering if maybe I’ve been wrong.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
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“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“In the end the boy had died one evening in his mother's arms, his limbs burning with fever, but then there was the funeral to pay for, and the other children who were born soon enough, and the newer, bigger house, and the good schools and tutors, and the fine shoes and the television, and the countless other ways he tried to console his wife and to keep her from crying in her sleep, and so when the doctor offered to pay him twice as much as he earned at the grammar school, he accepted.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, quote from Interpreter of Maladies
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Little House on the Prairie
“The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings,
But mercy is above this sceptered sway.
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute to God himself.
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this-
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea,
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Merchant of Venice
“All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.”
― Edmond Rostand, quote from Cyrano de Bergerac
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