Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Dawson, like tuck was one of those rare people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings grow stronger.

May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

At least that was the hope. Hope, he'd learned, was sometimes all a person had

Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas que fiz e cometo erros e passo grande parte do tempo a interrogar-me sobre quem sou realmente ou se a minha vida tem algum significado sequer. Não sou de modo nenhum uma pessoa especial, Dawson, e tens de perceber isso. Tens de compreender que sou apenas... uma pessoa vulgar.

There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

In my thoughts forever.

Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pregunto: «Sera hoy?». No lo se, de hecho nunca lo se de antemano, aunque en el fondo eso tampoco importa. Es la posibilidad lo que me mantiene con esperanza, no la garantía; es como una apuesta que me hago a mi mismo. Y a pesar de que quizás alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.

In time of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day...

You're beautiful and charming, and I can't stop thinking about last night." No, he didn't say that. Not exactly, anyway. What Sarah heard was, "Hey—how are you?

Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.

For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.

There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in their entirety

I am always with you, Ira.

O?aran sam ?injenicom da ona uvijek pokazuje svoje osje?aje s djetinjom lako?om. Kad je tužna, pla?e; kad je vesela, smije se, i najviše voli kad je se iznenadi nekom lijepom gestom.

So . . . do you?" He persisted. "Yes," she said finally with a mystified laugh. "I wrap my head in a towel." He nodded, satisfied. "I thought so." "Did you ever think about cutting back on the caffeine?" Miles shook his head. "Never.

I was told that I should never lie or cheat or steal, for instance, but my father—a sometimes Jew, he called himself back then—was far more likely to focus on the practical. Never go out in the rain without a hat, he would tell me. Never touch a stove burner, on the off chance it still might be hot. I was warned that I should never count the money in my wallet in public, or buy jewelry from a man on the street

that time had a funny way of dimming the edges of reality until only something blurry remained

and one of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been

We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say, she mused. If only, she began for the thousandth time, the images of those days beginning to flash behind her eyes like a slide show she was powerless to stop

there are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.

You mean the one that used to be advertised on late-night television? Where the guy on the commercial uses it to cut through a tin can?" She nodded. "That's the one." "Did you get it?" "It's the knife I'm using now." He smiled. "I've never known anyone who actually admitted to buying one." "Now you do," she said.

Didn't we just talk about this the other night?" Denise sighed with exasperation. "Yeah, we talked. Or rather, I talked. But you didn't say much at all." "Sure I did." "No, you didn't. But then, you never have. You just talk about surface things, never the things that are really bothering you.

The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu once said that being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage.