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“Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”

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)

“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

“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

“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)

“I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

“As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we’ll find a way to make it work.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing…
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers
left from early fires,
… shall duly flame again”

Nicholas Sparks

“Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: The Rescue

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer