Nicholas Sparks Quotes

But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

love means to see the one you love happy

I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.

I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.

No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.

i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.

It all comes down to who's by your side.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

If you're a bird... I'm a bird.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning.

Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.