Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.

Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.

Hope, he learned, was sometimes all a person had

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

It all comes down to who's by your side.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

You are in so much more trouble than I thought you were!

being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Memories are a doorway to the past, and the more one treasures the memories, the wider the door will open.

Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.

Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning.

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.

She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

I thought i saw something inside you ,something good... but i was very wrong

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

Finding something like that in a war is like finding an angel in hell so i kept it with me

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were

I'll be the light in the window.

You found out who you are and what you want and then you realized that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.