Nicholas Sparks Quotes

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

~ Nicholas Sparks

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. 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

...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it

~ Nicholas Sparks

Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

~ Nicholas Sparks

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

~ Nicholas Sparks

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo

~ Nicholas Sparks

It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

~ Nicholas Sparks

...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

~ Nicholas Sparks

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

~ Nicholas Sparks

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

~ Nicholas Sparks

My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

~ Nicholas Sparks

I gave you the best of me.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Who did she know in Raleigh who took 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

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

~ Nicholas Sparks

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

~ Nicholas Sparks

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.

~ Nicholas Sparks

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

~ Nicholas Sparks

I'll bet he light in the window.

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It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

~ Nicholas Sparks

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life

~ Nicholas Sparks

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

~ Nicholas Sparks

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

~ Nicholas Sparks

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You can’t live your life for other people. You've got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

~ Nicholas Sparks