Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

See me just as I see you.

~ Nicholas Sparks

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.

~ Nicholas Sparks

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

~ Nicholas Sparks

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

~ Nicholas Sparks

What happens if a car comes? We die.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The world is a better place when you smile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

~ Nicholas Sparks

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

~ Nicholas Sparks

Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-

~ Nicholas Sparks

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

~ Nicholas Sparks

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

~ Nicholas Sparks

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Do you want a cookie?- What?- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?- No.- How can you not want a cookie?- I just don't.- Okay, fine,let's say you did want a cookie. Let's say you were dying for a cookie, and there were cookies in the cupboard. What would you do?- I'd eat a cookie?- Exactly. That's all I'm saying.- What are you saying?- That if people want cookies, they should get a cookie. It's what people do.- Let me guess. Dad won't let you have acookie?- No. Even though I'm practically starving to death, he won't even consider it. He says I have to have a sandwich first.- And you don't think that's fair.- You just said you'd get a cookie if you wanted one. So why can't I? I'm not a little kid. I can make my own decisions.- Hmm. I can see why this bothers you somuch.- It's not fair. If he wants a cookie, he can have one. If you want a cookie,you can have one. But if I want a cookie, the rules don't count. Like yousaid, it's not fair.- So what are you going to do?- I'm going to eat a sandwich. Because I have to. Because the world isn't fairto ten-year-olds.

~ Nicholas Sparks

As Confucius once said, He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. 'did Confucius really say that?'Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. 'No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?'Gabby put her hands on her hips. 'Or maybe you just wanted to be lazy.'Stephanie grinned. 'Like Jesus said, Blessed are the lazy who lie in boats, for they shall inherit a suntan.''Jesus didn't say that.''True,' Stephanie afreed, sitting up. She removed her glasses, stared through them, then wiped them on a towel. 'But again, who cares?

~ Nicholas Sparks

It all comes down to who's by your side.

~ Nicholas Sparks

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

~ Nicholas Sparks

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

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There's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but...a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can't help but wonder if they're nuts. - Logan

~ Nicholas Sparks

I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year. - Nana

~ Nicholas Sparks

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

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Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

~ Nicholas Sparks

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

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That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

~ Nicholas Sparks