Nicholas Sparks citations

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“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”

“What happens if a car comes?
We die.”

“Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.”

“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.”

“The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.”

“You have the Best Of Me….”

“Why did you come here?
To find you.”

“The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.”

“Don't think there are no second chances.

Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE…

It's called TOMORROW”

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

“It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.”

“I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.”

“He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.”

“You might not believe it… but you make the world a better place when you smile.”

“I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

“I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.”

“i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.”

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

“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.”

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

“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.”

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”

“I wish we didn't live so far apart… You're kind of addicting.”

“Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?"

"We weren't," he said. "We were in love.”

“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.”

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”