Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

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

What do you like most about being here? The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.

A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ?

God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.

Nuestro amor es como el viento no podemos verlo pero podemos sentirlo

Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? Always together, forever apart.

Al final, la gente que sufre tiene que 'querer' seguir adelante, que el primer paso, esa chispa de motivación, tiene que salir de ellos. Y cuando lo hace, abre la puerta a lo inesperado

Why does love always seem to require sacrifice?

God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts. "I didn't want to fall in love with anyone," she said. "I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. I know it's different, but you'll be leaving in just a few days and all this will be over… and I'll be a mess again.

love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

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.

The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... B

What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God's presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

The destiny that matters most in anyone's life is the one concerning love.

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

You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown.

Winston Churchill once described worry as a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind that, if encouraged, cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Because who is ever really fixed when it comes to mental or emotional health? Life takes radical twists and turns, and hopes and dreams shift

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

Can I have a Happy Meal? don't you think you're getting a little old for that? I'm only seven, Dad.

He looks pretty broken up about the fact he won't see me tonight. Absolutely crushed, Sarah agreed with a nod. We were supposed to rent a movie together, you know. Sarah shrugged. It must be terrible to be forgotten so easily. Miles laughed. He was smitten about her, no doubt about it.

I thought you didn't like staying after school. I didn't at first, but I kind of like it now. You do? He nodded. Miss Andrews makes me feel special.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music