Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”

“Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?”

“Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.”

“It's easy to joke when you don't care any more. I'm not saying it didn't hurt me, because it did.”

“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.”

“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”

“We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.”

“Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant… everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

“Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping”

“Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?”

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”

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

“it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.”

“I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.”

“As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”

“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”

“That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens.”

“Don't let fear govern your decision.”

“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”

“In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.”

“Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.”

“Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”

“Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.”

“It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”

“Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not dead, Nana."
Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.”

“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”

“memories are funny things. Sometimes they’re real, but other times they change into what we want them to be”

“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”

“Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.”

“I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.”

“I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.”

“most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”

“He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.”

“Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree”

“A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”

“What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.”

“I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.”

“So that's the ghost you been running from.”