Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

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.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

Every great love starts with a great story.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don't know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

There's no love like the first.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.