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“I don't believe in love."

"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― 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.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, 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, 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, The Sun is Also a Star

“Desperation translates into every language.”
― Nicola Yoon, 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, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Observable Fact: I don't believe in magic.
Observable Fact: We are magic.”
― Nicola Yoon, 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, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It’s hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn’t want you.”
― Nicola Yoon, 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, 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, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I don't know if I still love her in the way I used to, but I still find her just as beautiful.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel’s place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“There are many ways of being alone. That’s something I know to be true. I breathe in (stars and sky). I breathe out (snow and trees). There”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay