Nicholas Sparks: Quotes about life

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“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

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other… I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

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

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

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

“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'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 22, p. 258-259
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Ira Levinson speaking about his father, Chapter 1 Ira, p. 2
Variant: we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

“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

“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.