Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles? I just told you. You're my miracle.

she'd learned long time ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever

I relive that year often in my mind, bringing it back to life, and I realize that when I do, I always feel a strange combination of sadness and joy. There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. This happens more often than I let on.

Jamie: Are you trying to seduce me? Landon: Why? Are you seducible?

I love you, Luke.

You know my last name, but I didn't catch yours." "Danko," she said. Then, anticipating his next question: "My dad is from Slovakia." "That's near Kansas, right?

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. But you're a grown-up. Grown-ups get sad, too.

you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

Geen drenkeling zal ooit weten welke waterdruppel hem zijn laatste adem benam...

In the last few days, you've made me feel...alive. You make me feel beautiful and intelligent and wanted, and no matter how hard I try, I'll never be able to tell you how much that's meant to me.

I realize that I don't know where to start. Not because I'm unsure of my story, but because I'm not sure why I feel compelled to tell it in the first place. What can be achieved by unearthing the past?

they often told others, they were too busy laughing together to have any time to argue.

fazia-mos coisas muito simples, como atirar estrelas-do.mar ao mar ou partilhar um hambúrguer, e já nessa altura eu sabia que era uma afortunada. Eras o primeiro tipo que não estava sempre a tentar impressionar-me. Aceitaras-te como eras, mas, mais do que isso, aceitavas-me por aquilo que eu era. O que importava era só nós os dois.

It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings

wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits.

Tru nodded, then started at the beginning. For the first time that morning, Hope seemed to emerge from her shell, escaping in the moment the

He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been so lucky to find her.

If there was one thing she'd learned, it was that people didn't change. They liked what they liked, even if they didn't understand why.

After something like that . . . well, even though you try to get through it—and might seem fine on the surface—underneath you're a wreck, and you don't even know it. And sometimes, it takes a while to figure out that you're still struggling with everything that happened.

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and higher than the moon.

Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. "I'm dying, Landon.

And yet, in truth it is in the quiet details of our life together where I have found the most meaning.

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

He'd always believed that anything was possible when it came to love, that any obstacle could be overcome. Wasn't that a truth that nearly everyone took for granted?