"She leaned into me, and when I..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.”

“Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.”

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

“Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.”

“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

“I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.”

“Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.”