Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours.

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitment, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. He hesitated searching for the right words. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

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.

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life. She squeezed his hand. And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.