Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

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. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

If you're a bird... I'm a bird...

I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Noah: You wanna dance with me? Allie: Sure. Now? Noah: Mmm Hmm Allie: You're not supposed to dance in the street. Noah: You are supposed to dance in the street. Allie: Yeah, but we don't have any music. Noah: Well, we'll make some... Bum bum bum bum bum bum... Allie: You're a terrible singer. Noah: I know. Allie: And I like this song.

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

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.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

You really love her don't you, she said. With all my heart. She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know. Maybe, she said gently,You're trying to hard to hear it.

This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. I love you, T.

I'm going to marry you one day, you know. Is that a promise? If you want it to be.

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...

Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

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