Quotes from book

Nights in Rodanthe

“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”

“As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything”

“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”

“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

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