Quotes from 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.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

That's the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.

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.

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.