175 Quotes by Nicola Yoon

I’m kind of a contagion cryer. 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.

ฉันอยากจะทำร้ายจิตใจแม่อีกหลายๆรอบ เพราะความโกรธของฉันไม่เคยไปไหนไกลเลย ถึงแม้ฉันจะคิดไว้ว่าเวลาคงช่วยให้มันจางลงได้บ้าง แต่มันก็ยังอยู่ตรงนี้ ภายใต้พื้นผิวของสิ่งอื่นไม่ไปไหนอยู่ดี

Jesus. Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply. I still think what happened is funny in its perfect awfulness, but I understand his shame too. It's hard to come from someplace or someone you're not proud of. "You're not your dad," I say, but he doesn't believe me. I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?

We pass a woman shaking her head and slapping at the steering wheel with her hands. Only after we’ve passed her do I figure out that she was probably dancing to music.

I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never had my heart broken, so I'm having a hard time.

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion.

To grow up is to grow apart

Di una cosa sono certa: i desideri generano solo altri desideri. Non c’è fine al desiderio

You're not living if you're not regretting.