Nicola Yoon

Names are powerful things.

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.

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.

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There__ a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.

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.

Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcyMadeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy?Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn't love anybodyMadeline: She must love somebody. I'm sure she loves youOlly: what's so great about darcy?Madeline: That's not a serious questionOlly: he's a snobMadeline: 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.

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.

Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

I've never understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms in by body align themselves with the atoms in his.

According to scientists, there are three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. And, it turns out, each of the stages is orchestrated by chemicals__eurotransmitters__n the brain.As you might expect, lust is ruled by testosterone and estrogen.The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each other__ presence, that__ dopamine, the pleasure hormone, doing its work.Taking cocaine fosters the same level of euphoria. In fact, scientists who study both the brains of new lovers and cocaine addicts are hard-pressed to tell the difference.The second chemical of the attraction phase is serotonin. When couples confess that they can__ stop thinking about each other, it__ because their serotonin level has dropped. People in love have the same low serotonin levels as people with OCD. The reason they can__ stop thinking about each other is that they are literally obsessed.Oxytocin and vasopressin control the third stage: attachment or long-term bonding. Oxytocin is released during orgasm and makes you feel closer to the person you__e had sex with. It__ also released during childbirth and helps bond mother to child. Vasopressin is released postcoitally.Natasha knows these facts cold. Knowing them helped her get over Rob__ betrayal. So she knows: love is just chemicals and coincidence.So why does Daniel feel like something more?

What are we talking about again?_ he asks.I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both laugh.__hat are the ingredients?_ he prompts me again.__utual self-interest and socioeconomic compatibility.___o you even have a soul?___o such thing as a soul,_ I say.

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

I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me._ _ Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.

I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.

Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.