Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Beauty and earthy common sense were a rare combination, yet he doubted she was even aware she possessed it. By

He kept staring at you all night. For a moment there, I thought his eyes were attached to you by an invisible string.

Is she here now?" Tuck

She wasn't fantasy anymore. But something real, something he couldn't imagine living without, and he crossed his arms, as if bracing himself from the possibility that all this might slip away.

Another shuts down or holds grudges for weeks.

Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgement

That didn't mean, of course, that he was ready to headlong into single life. If it happened, it happened. And if it didn't? He figured he'd cross that bridge when he came to it. He was willing to wait for the right person, someone who not only brought joy back into his life..

In the days that followed, it was as if all personal differences and political affiliations of any kind melted away. For a short period of time, we were all simply Americans.

What you said was beautiful. It takes a poet to talk the way you do, and like I said you're the only poet I've ever met.

But as time passed, I came to realize that there was only so much I could do myself. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on—that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

How, then, was she--his wife, who'd taken a vow to remain with him in sickness and in health--supposed to justify ending the marriage and breaking up their family after everything they have been through? When all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be

She had a childlike innocence that both charmed Taylor and aroused his protective interests, but eventually, she too wanted more than Taylor was willing to commit to.

But then again, he hadn't really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there was something inside of him they were unable to reach, something about the way he viewed himself that neither of them could really understand. An though he knew they meant well, their attempts to talk to him about this distance of his didn't – or couldn't – change anything.

marriage isn't what people think it is. People want to believe that every marriage is this perfect balance

if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?" Megan.

True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.

Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget, or you stop wishing that you can change the past. Mainly it means that you accept the idea that you're not perfect, because no one is perfect. And terrible things can happen to anyone.

Maybe he suspected something, maybe he'd simply been around long enough to know that fairytales seldom came true

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand.

she felt a sudden, unexpected surge of hope. Despite the tragedy they'd all gone through, this was what a happy family looked like; this, she thought, is what a loving family did when they were together. For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. And that maybe, just maybe, it would be possible for her to experience similar days in the future.

Our stories are funny because we lived them, and we survived them.

and I remember thinking that I wanted to be around someone like that forever. Someone who could laugh at the inconveniences of life and find joy in any occasion. That's when I knew she was the one.

you'll be loved and you be loved... and in the end, nothing else matters.

There are a lot of people in the world, I think, who could learn a lot from my dad.