Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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“A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.”

“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”

“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”

“Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?”

“Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.”

“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

“Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.”

“You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

“I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.”

“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

“If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.”

“That’s a wonderful story.”

“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you’re certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

“When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?”

“And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.”

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable…”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”

“This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out.
First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.”

“And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”

“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.”

“in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.”

“If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.”

“How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?”

“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

“Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.”

“Oh, Garrett, who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?”

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

“The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”

“Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.”

“Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.”

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

“Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.”

“Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.”

“Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.”

“How can I describe how much I love you?
Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I
sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”

“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.”

“I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.”

“And in your smile, I will live forever”

“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish, cold…. the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again”

“I love you, Elizabeth… and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

“People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other”

“How's it hangin' Harry?
I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Well, you can't have everything.”