"Good and bad, strengths and faults, he..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.”

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

“Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.”

“We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.”

“This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

“The most sincere form of love is love for food”

“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.”