Quotes by Nicola Yoon, 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.”

“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 talkin...”

“Hearts dont break.Its just another thing the poets say.Hearts are not madeOf glassOr boneOr any material that couldSplinterOr FragmentOr Shatter.They dontCrack Into Pieces.They dontFall Apart.Heart...”

“They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.”

“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. Im happy to have choices. Theyre mine to make”

“Im 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? Im like that, except with crying.”

“He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?”

“The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.”

“He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who lik...”

“Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.”

“Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.”

“I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.”

“What are we talking about again?” he asks.I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both laugh.“What are the ingredients?” he prompts me again.“Mutual self-interest and socioeconomic...”

“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”

“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 w...”

“Observable Fact: I don’t believe in magic.Observable Fact: We are magic.”

“Hearts don’t break.It’s just another thing the poets say.Hearts are not madeOf glassOr boneOr any material that couldSplinterOr FragmentOr Shatter.They don’tCrack Into Pieces.They don’tFall Apart.H...”

“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make”

“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 cr...”