Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween...

If a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But that doesn't mean they don't love you. If they do lie, it's because they care.

I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.

if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.

Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. He gave himself over to the feel of her body as it pressed against him, and they moved slowly in small circles on the sawdust-strewn floor, lost in a world that felt as though it had been created for just the two of them.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her. She turned to face him. What were we thinking? We weren't, he said. We were in love.

Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things. They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference Adrienne thought, was that most young people seemed to thing that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed that they lay in the past.

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

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