"It took me a long time to..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

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

“I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.”

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”

“But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”

“You cannot see the mountain near.”

“There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.”

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”

“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.”