Nicholas Sparks: Thing (page 5)

“You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy.”

Nicholas Sparks

Julie Barenson, Chapter 15, p. 163
2000s, The Guardian (2003)

Guy , Thinking , Time , Hurt

“"Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love." "Spoken like a man with plenty of experience. But keep in mind that true love lasts forever." "Poets would say that true love always ends in tragedy."”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker and Gaby Holland, Chapter 11, p. 132
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love , Life

“…The one thing you've got to remember is to see the big picture. When things get tough, remind yourself why you fell in love with her in the first place. She's a special woman, and you were lucky to find her, just as she was lucky to find you. She's got a heart of gold, and you can't fake something like that.”

Nicholas Sparks

Jeremy's father, Chapter 11, p. 147
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

Love , Heart

“…it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind…through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences:
A. It's your life + social commentary.
B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
C. No one ever said that life was fair.”

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks about his mother Jill Sparks, Chapter 8, p. 127
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life

“…you have to give them both credit for being good parents simply because of the way their kids turned out. We're happily married, successful, ethical, and we remained close as siblings. If your kids can say the same thing later in life, won't you think you did a good job as a parent?”

Nicholas Sparks

Dana Sparks, Chapter 14, p. 247
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life , Way , Thinking , Parent

“The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ira Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 80
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Truth , Feeling , Change , Heart

“These days, it seemed that the only thing he was certain about was the knowledge that he wouldn't trade his years with Gabby for anything. Without her, his life had little meaning. He was a small-town husband with a small-town occupation and his cares were no different from anyone else's. He'd been neither a leader nor a follower, nor had he been someone who would be remembered long after he passed away. He was the most ordinary of men with only one exception: He'd fallen in love with a woman named Gabby, his love deepening in the years they'd been married. But fate had conspired to ruin all that, and now he spent long periods of his days wondering whether it was humanly possible to fix things between them.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 199
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love , Life , Men , Fate

“That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 54
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Personality

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that.”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 132
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life , Parting

“"… the secret of a long lasting marriage is…… communication. When we talk about issues and really open up to each other, things are great between us. When we keep things to ourselves, grudges and resentments build up and we end up arguing." …"What good is talking if neither of you are really committed?… marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong. You have to know what your spouse needs from you, and then you do it. And you avoid doing the things that harm the relationship. If your spouse acts the same way, your marriage can make it through anything."”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah and Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 8, p. 113-114
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Marriage , People , Secret , Way

“"Denial is an ugly thing, Nicky." "I'm not in denial.""See what I mean? That's denial."”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah and Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 5, p. 60
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

“…the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better.”

Nicholas Sparks

Evelyn Collier, Chapter 6, p. 103
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Understanding , Grass , Water

“Dying is a strange business, and I'm not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it's a cliche, it's true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are. …I find myself reflecting on the essential moments of my life.”

Nicholas Sparks

Carly, Chapter 43, p. 336
2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Life , Business

“As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ruth Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 78
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Life , Joy

“But would she do it differently if she could? She doubted it. Her experiences growing up ad formed her into the woman that she'd become, just as his experiences had formed him, and she didn't regret them. And yet…she knew that wasn't the question that mattered. …she realized the choice before her was this: Where do I go from here?
It is never too late to change things.”

Nicholas Sparks

Gabby Holland, Chapter 13, p. 168
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Question , Change

“…people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same thing, but somehow on one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way.”

Nicholas Sparks

Stephanie Parker, Chapter 9, p. 111
2000s, The Choice (2007)

People , Way , Thinking , Parting

“Nowadays, she thought, it was the little things in life that mattered. If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was.”

Nicholas Sparks

Julie Barenson, Chapter 1, p. 11
2000s, The Guardian (2003)

Life , Past