Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I think they've met before, she finally said. Who? Thibault and the loser?

Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.

I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.

She's a cautious one, he observed. Kiss her once, and she seemed to question it all. But allow her to lead, and the caution seemed to fade. He knew she was trying to figure him out, trying to match his story to the man she saw sitting across from her. But there was no mistaking the sympathy on her face the moment she realized how similar they were.

Rules were about averages, not specifics, and since people were conditioned since childhood to accept rules, it was easy to follow them blindly. To trust in the system. It was easier not to worry about random possibilities. It meant that people didn't have to think about potential consequences, and when the sun was shining on Friday afternoons, they could play Frisbee without a care in the world.

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.

daddies ain't worth much if they don't worry just a little.

That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.

Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

I sometimes find myself wondering why some people remain in your life while others drift away. I don't have the answer to that, other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain it. I

You need to learn how to forgive. Ronnie was angery at herself for pushing everyone that loved her away. the theme of this book is to let everyone have a second chance. as Ronnie had learnt this by the end of the story and forgave herself and others including her father and Will.

Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer.

Welcome to war. It's always a SNAFU: situation normal, all f—ed up.

She wished her younger brother, Drake, were here, and she felt the usual ache when she thought of him.

I think your mom has caterpillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

Now I understand how Noah must have felt. Can you believe this storm? I've got puddles all over my kitchen.

Thrown under the bus by my own kids. I just can't believe it." "I wouldn't throw you under the bus, Daddy," Kristen said seriously. "Thank you, sweetie.

He's just… immature. He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.

No es que te esté dando órdenes, sino que quiero probar la sinceridad de tu amor en comparación con la dedicación de los demás.

Maybe the older people get, the more important the past becomes? Because there's less future ahead?