Instructions for Dancing Quotes

“The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Here's what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“You can miss the future with people who are still alive too.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Love is too small, too singular a word for the feeling it’s trying to hold. Just one word isn’t enough, so I want to use them all. Sometimes I think love is the reason language was invented.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what the ground looks like.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Everyone loves to hate love triangles, but actually they’re great. They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be, and who they’re still becoming. Side note: If you ever find yourself choosing between a vampire and a werewolf, choose the vampire.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“To love is human. We can't help ourselves.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Mom said just because a thing ends doesn't make the thing any less real. Just because everything is different now doesn't mean we didn't love each other once. Maybe we will again.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Not everybody can dance good, but everybody can dance.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“I’m not scared I won’t survive the pain. I’m scared the pain will never end and I’ll have to live with it forever. The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Couples in love believe they’ll always be in love. It’s one of the ways you know you’re in love in the first place.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“How many versions of me will there be in this one lifetime?”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It’s hard to completely hate someone who loves someone you love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“In darkness, there's still hope. Some hidden things in the places you can't see. Grief to me feels like an endless landscape of white light. No secrets. No surprises either. You can see clearly all you have lost. Everything that is no longer there.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Sometimes I wish there were a weather report for your life. Tomorrow’s forecast is for routine high school shenanigans in the morning, but with dramatic parental betrayal by late afternoon, ending with wild emotional despair by nightfall. Details after the next commercial break.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“I don’t know why we lose the people we love and we’re expected to go on after we lose them. But I know that to love is human. We can’t help ourselves. The philosopher-poets say love is the answer, but it’s more than that. Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don't know what the ground looks like. They believe their landing will be soft. That the ground is covered in soft stuff- feathers, down pillows, fluffy baby blankets, the shaggiest shag carpeting. But I've seen the ground. It is covered in lethal spikes fashioned fro the bones of other jumpers. The fall is not all survivable.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“What I’ve learned over the last three weeks is that all my old romance novels ended too quickly. Chapters were missing from the end. If they told the real story—the entire story—each couple would’ve eventually broken up, due to neglect or boredom or betrayal or distance or death. Given enough time, all love stories turn into heartbreak stories. Heartbreak = love + time.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“I wonder if being with him will always feel like a discovery.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“One of the hazards of having friends, especially long time ones, is just how well they know you.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“One thing I’ll know for sure: love can last forever.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Hearts grow bigger so you can love more.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It occurs to me that an unhappy ending for one person can mean a happy beginning for another...
I think about the way we're all just starring in our own stories" -Evie”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“People dont come back Evie. The time we get is the time we get.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing