Nicholas Sparks Quotes

“It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.”

Source: The Notebook

“I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Your love is like the wind… you cant see it, but you can feel it…”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Source: A Walk to Remember

“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks Quotes about love

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

“A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home”

John Tyree, Prologue, p. 4
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

“you have to love something before you can hate it.”

Source: The Last Song

“There's no love like the first.”

Source: The Last Song

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

Nicholas Sparks Quotes about life

“If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for”

Duke, Miracles, p. 2
Source: 1990s, The Notebook (1996)

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Variant: If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Source: The Longest Ride

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000), Chapter 1, p. 9

“A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”

“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”

Source: The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”

“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath… It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

Source: Dear John

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Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“A joy as intense as pain”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

Source: The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks Quotes

“Every great love starts with a great story…”

Source: The Notebook

“I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.”

Source: The Notebook

“…she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”

Source: Dear John

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)

“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.”

“Some things were beyond understanding.”

Source: Message in a Bottle

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”

Source: Dear John

“I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.”

Source: Dear John

“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

Two By Two

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Source: At First Sight

“…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

John Tyree, Epilogue, p. 275
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

Source: The Notebook

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

Source: The Last Song

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

Source: The Notebook

“…when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”

Source: The Notebook

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

Savannah Lynn Curtis, Chapter 4, p. 71
Variant: ... when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

Source: Message in a Bottle

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

Source: The Notebook

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”

Source: The Notebook

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”

Source: The Notebook

“Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”

Source: Message in a Bottle

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

Source: The Last Song

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

Source: Message in a Bottle

“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”

Source: The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Variant: The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over. Those two elements always go together.
Source: Nights in Rodanthe

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 113
Variant: I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”

“Life, he realized, was much like a song.
In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

Source: Dear John

“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)

“…I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief…lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming.”

Source: Dear John

“Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”

Tim Wheddon, Chapter 20, p. 265
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”

Source: Dear John

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 13, p. 166
Variant: conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Context: Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”

“Sometimes the same emotion that breaks your heart is the very one that will heal it…”

Source: The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Front jacket flap
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”

Source: Message in a Bottle

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Paul Flanner, Chapter 16, p. 188
Source: 2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)

“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”

“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”

Source: Dear John

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”

Source: Dear John

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”

Source: Dear John

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

Source: The Notebook

“If you're a bird… I'm a bird…”

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

Source: The Notebook