Risks Of Love In Everything Everything Everything By Nicola Yoon

Everything Everything, by Nicola Yoon is a young adult fiction novel. Everything Everything is Nicola Yoon’s first novel. It was debuted #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for eleven months. The book was also adapted for film (made into a movie) by MGM and Warner Bros Studios.

Summary Everything Everything is about an eighteen year old girl named Madeline Whittier. She suffers from a rare disease called SCID and is basically allergic to the world. The only people she is allowed to see is her mother and her nurse. Her life is so simple/predictable until Maddie meets her new neighbors. Or more specifically, Olly. All of a sudden, Maddie finds herself talking to him through IM, emails and funny little messages
“ I look around my white room at my white couch and shelves, my white walls, all of it safe and familiar and unchanging.
I think of Olly, decontamination-cold and waiting for me. He’s the opposite of all these things. He’s not safe. He’s not familiar. He’s in constant motion. He’s the biggest risk I’ve ever taken” (Yoon 68-69). Maddie is used to everything in her house. She knows where everything is and how everything works. She doesn’t know anything outside her house. She doesn’t know Olly. Maddie does not know Olly but she is taking a chance, she is taking a risk on loving him.

“Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster” (Yoon 99)

“It was less than a minute,” I say, for both our benefit. “Sometimes a minute is all it takes.” Her voice is almost not there at all. “Mom, I’m sorry—” She holds up a hand and shakes her head. “How could you?” she asks, finally meeting my eyes. I’m not sure if she’s asking about my going Outside or lying to her. I don’t have an answer for either question. As soon as she leaves, I go to the window in search of Olly, but I don’t find him. He’s probably on the roof. I get into bed. Was I really just Outside? What did the air smell like? Was there wind? Did my feet even touch the ground? I touch the skin on my arms, my face. Is it different? Am I?
And now that I have, I don’t remember any of it. Just the sight of Olly doubled over in pain. Just his voice telling me to go back” (Yoon 137-138). Maddie risked her life just to make sure Olly was okay. Because she is in love with him. This is an example of the risk for love because Maddie ran outside, even though she knows that she could die to make sure that Olly is okay after he got