The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.

To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.

Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography.

You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.

People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

I DON’T THINK I’ve ever noticed anyone the way I’m noticing her.

My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?

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.

I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.

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.

I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make.

To grow up is to grow apart.

“It’s not up to you to help other people fit you into a box,”

It’s fair to say that I hate everything and everyone.

We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don’t need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.

Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.

But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.