Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

The logical side of me knows that what we want and what we get are usually two entirely different things.

Standing in the pouring rain, she felt the pull of the person he was, and the person she realized she wanted to be. By

She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love.

But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did.

always together, forever apart.

workin' day and night, slavin' so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Eithet they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

but it's her kindness i think i like best because i've been around long enough to know how rare something like that really is.

Life he decided, was for living, not for having.

You know it's love when all you want to do is spend time with the other person, and you sort of know that the other person feels the same way.

I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

But now it's time for me to join her. It's time for us to sing together. It's my time and I have no regrets. I'm back with Clara again, and that's the only place I've ever wanted to be. Scatter my ashes to the wind and flowers, and don't cry for me. Instead, I want you to smile for the both of us; smile with joy for me and my gal. - Tuck

Allison Nelson, twenty-nine years old and engaged, a socialite, searching for answers she needed to know, and Noah Calhoun, the dreamer, thirty-one, visited by the ghost that had come to dominate his life.

But wasn't a relationship supposed to be just that? A relationship? Both partners doing everything they could to keep the other satisfied?

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Your Dad Loves You, I Can Tell, Even If You Can't.

It wasn't as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.

Follow your heart

Despite her best intentions, she was beginning to accept the reality of the attraction she felt for him.

You should tell her." "Tell her what?" "What the doctor told us," she said, not bothering to mince her words. "You should tell her that if you keep riding, you'll most likely be dead in less than a year.

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

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