"Real people had real agendas, real demands,..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”

“I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.”

“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”

“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.”

“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”

“The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.”

“Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.”

“Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".”