Quotes from book
The Choice

The Choice
Nicholas Sparks Original title En nombre del amor (Spanish, 2007)

The Choice is a 2007 novel written by Nicholas Sparks. It was first published on September 24, 2007 by Grand Central Publishing.


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“Some things were beyond understanding.”

Source: The Choice

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“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”

Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 191
Variant: How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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“Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.”

Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 203
Variant: Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”

Travis Parker, Chapter 13, p. 166
Variant: conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Context: Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

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“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 51
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.”

Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 1
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them….”

Travis Parker, Chapter 8, p. 101
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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