Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I've always believed that art and faith have much in common. Both allow people to explore the subtleties of their own emotions and to find their own answers to what the art represents to them. Your work and Trinity's always make me -think-, and more importantly, they make me -feel- in ways that often lead to a sense of wonder. Just like faith. [Mark Price, to Maggie Dawes]

And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes. He didn't know how to stop them.

Not wanting to lose someone has its roots in fear.

Habit and tradition often render change undesirable.

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.

In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did. (p. 96, Trevor Benson)

The thing is, I get the sense that you're telling me the truth. You're just not telling all of it. And the part you're leaving out is the part that would help me understand who you are.

You don't even know him -No, but I know you, and you were happy -What if he won't talk me? -He will -How do you know? -Because I was watching, and he was happy, too.

Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person. That's what the Final Solution was all about, really.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.

You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.

As he lay on the couch, he reflected that he wanted to be the same kind of father someday.

But growing up hadn't been all cupcakes and parties, and he could remember wishing for a different life.

Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out

Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

I think," she said, "that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

and in those moments, it was your expression, more than your words, that always filled my heart with joy. With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure—despite

Love makes everything complicated, and emotions always go wild in the beginning. But when it's real, you should hold on tight, because we're both old enough to know that true love doesn't come along all that often.

The first time you fall in love, it will change your life forever.

Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have.