Nicholas Sparks citations

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“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

“I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.”

“It's your eyes. They're… more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

“You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.”

“It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.”

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

“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”

“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?”

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

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

“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”

“sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”

“I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.”

“Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.”

“Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.”

“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”

“If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.”

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”

“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.”

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

“There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”

“He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.”

“That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that… they say anything's possible, right?”

“If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

“People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should”

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”

“It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.”