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Everything, Everything QUOTES

Everything, Everything QUOTES

1 " Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

2 " In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. 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. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

3 " Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

4 " For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

5 " Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

6 " Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcy
Madeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy?
Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn't love anybody
Madeline: She must love somebody. I'm sure she loves you
Olly: what's so great about darcy?
Madeline: That's not a serious question
Olly: he's a snob
Madeline: But he overcomes it and eventually realizes that character matters more than class! He's a man open to learning life's lessons! Also, he's completely gorgeous and noble and brooding and poetic. Did I mention gorgeous? Also, he loves Elizabeth beyond all reason. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

7 " Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

8 " I dream that I run away from home taking the bot I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and that I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room with the boy that loves me and that I dream that I've run away from home taking the boy I love with me. I dream that I saw the ocean and it was endless and I could not find the end of it. I dream that I fall asleep in an unquiet room and that I dream about the life I'm already living. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

9 " From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.

But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

10 " Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

11 " I almost wish I hadn't met him. How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who Reads? "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

12 " Love is worth everything. Everything. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

13 " A photograph is a kind of time machine. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

14 " o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier] "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

15 " When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil. Or a chain mail-wearing, sword swinging dragon slayer. It was fun to imagine those things because I already knew who I was. Now I don't know anything. I don't know who I'm supposed to be in my new world. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

16 " I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

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

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

18 " I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. The moment that answered the question, 'How did I get here?'

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. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

19 " Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything

20 " 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. "

― Nicola Yoon , Everything, Everything