Nicholas Sparks citations

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“Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?”

“Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.”

“It's easy to joke when you don't care any more. I'm not saying it didn't hurt me, because it did.”

“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.”

“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”

“We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.”

“Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant… everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

“Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping”

“Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?”

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”

“I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.”

“it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.”

“I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.”

“As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”

“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”

“That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens.”

“Don't let fear govern your decision.”

“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”

“In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.”

“Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.”