"We’d met at a carefree time, a..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.”

“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”

“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

“Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.”

“Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.”

“As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

“- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!”