Nicholas Sparks Quotes page 4

“That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.”

“As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?”

Source: Safe Haven

“People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.”

Source: The Last Song

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

Source: The Last Song

“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”

Source: Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Mayor Gherkin, Chapter 8, p. 120
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Context: ... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.

“God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.”

“There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.”

Source: The Last Song

“You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.”

Source: The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“…good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.”

“When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.”

"Because they're passionate about their subjects."
Savannah Lynn Curtis and John Tyree, Chapter 4, p. 69-70
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

“If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart”

Source: The Last Song

“I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.”

Source: Dear John

“… nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

Source: Dear John

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.”

Source: Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.”

“Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Change isn't always for the best.”

Source: The Last Song

“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”

Variant: It's not such a bad thing. Change isn't always for the best.
Source: The Best of Me

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it…”

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 11, p. 187
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

“I knew my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me.”

Source: The Last Song

“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”

John Tyree, Chapter 16, p. 198
2000s, Dear John (2006)
Source: The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Variant: I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
Source: The Notebook

“You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.”

“She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.”

Source: A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.”

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

Variant: It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
Source: A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”

Source: Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“I do not need a reason to be angry with God.”

“Everything around me makes me miss you.”

“I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”

Source: Dear John

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

Alex Wheatley, Chapter 25, p. 208
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”

“Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.”

Source: A Walk to Remember

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle… you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”

Source: A Walk to Remember

“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”

Source: Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

PLEASE DONT BELIEVE IN PAGE NUMBER THEY ARE WRONG I TRIED TO FIND QUOTES BUT THEY ARE NOT TTHERE FUCK THIS SHIT, 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013), Ira Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 341

“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them….”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 8, p. 101
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.”

“I love you John Tyree, and I'm going to hold you to the promise you once made me. If you come back, I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart.”

Source: Dear John

“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”