Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.

One thing I’m certain of: Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.

I’ve read many, many books involving heartache. Not one has ever described it as little. Soul-shattering and world-destroying, yes. Little, no.

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.

Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.

I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.” It’s not a question and, anyway, I don’t have an answer.

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.”

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.