Nicholas Sparks: Trending quotes (page 17)

“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Life , Change

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Thinking , Time

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

Nicholas Sparks

People

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 13, p. 205
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
Context: In her new, more mature incarnation, she embraced the idea that maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark in the world.

Life , World , Thinking , Success

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Fate , Hope

“I wish we didn't live so far apart… You're kind of addicting.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?"

"We weren't," he said. "We were in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Love , Thinking , Perfection

“I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Thinking

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

God

“Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Jane Lewis, Chapter 8, p. 130
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Marriage , Personality

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

Love , Life , Hope , Feeling

“I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

People , Understanding , Thinking

“It's your eyes. They're… more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Strong

“It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: The Rescue

Time

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road

Jonah Ryan, Chapter 37, p. 336
Variant: I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)