Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don't quite understand but shouldn't be underestimated.…

It's important to remember that none of us is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is try to be the best version of ourselves as we move forward. In this case, if he asks, you can tell the truth, or you can lie. I suppose it comes down to the kind of person you want to see when you look in the mirror.

She would tell me that it was a sign that your heart was pure, that you formed deep attachments, and that once you loved something—or someone—you would never stop.

I understand women ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!

And in the end, isn't that the most important thing in life? To be truly known and loved by someone you've chosen?

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you.

I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder—for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?

Un hombre que se ahoga no puede saber cuál fue la gota de agua que detuvo con su último aliento.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on--that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

You can't run, you can't hide, and the idea that you have no control at all just gets into your head and it sticks there. In my time in the Navy, I was never so scared in my life. Bombs and smoke everywhere, fires on the deck. Meanwhile, the guns are booming and the noise is like nothing you've ever heard. Thunder times ten, maybe, but that doesn't describe it. In the big battles, Japanese Zeros strafed the deck continually, the shots ricocheting all over the place.

sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Para odiar algo, primero debes amarlo.

Giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

Allie would love what you've done, he remarked. She was always a softie when it came to things like this. I folded my hands in my lap. I wish she could be there this weekend. Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. So do I, he said.

Of the many things she'd learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that came to mind when evaluating others. "You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die? No, sweetie. Just the opposite. He rolled his head to face her. I asked you to come so I could watch you live.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met." - Jeremy

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.