Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.

Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.

Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Young Allie: [laughing] You're a terrible singer. Young Noah: I know. Young Allie: [laying her head on his shoulder] But I like this song. [they continue dancing in the street to I'll Be Seeing You]

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..

The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life.

A good man is hard to find, she said wistfully. Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today. And what that means is I can never replicate that trip. Even if I went to the same places and met the same people, it wouldn't be the same.

You know the real me, she said, stopping to peer up at him. More than anyone else.

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

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

the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered

I wish I could simply forgive myself and move on, but then again, if I really wanted to change, why didn't I?

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

Henry nodded, thinking, 'If you were any more whipped, little brother, they'd serve you on ice cream.

Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.

You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.

She understood then, with the distance that maturity brings, how much he'd loved her back then. And still did, something whispered inside her, and all at once she had the strange impression that everything they'd shared in the past had been the opening chapters in a book with a conclusion that had yet to be written.

It takes over—fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.

The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though. "Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.

At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me

You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remember a time when you were not a part of me. I do not know who I would have become had you never come back. I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. And, my darling, you will always be mine. Noah