Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

The bee doesn't care about me, or what I just did to her," I said. "She was just trying to protect herself. Now that the threat is gone, she doesn't hold a grudge.

But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.

In the end, you should always do the right thing even if it hurts.

I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's

You need to learn to forgive yourself first.

God, he suddenly understood was love in its purest form...

I am sorry, my darling, but there will never be another to replace you. The words I whispered to you were folly, and should have realized it then. You- and you alone- have always been the only thing I wanted, and now that you are gone have no desire to find another.

Guess I'm like an old shoe, huh?" She laughed. "A favorite shoe… maybe. One that always fit just right and you were never able to replace.

Vielleicht stimmt es ja, dass die Natur den Menschen manchmal Zeichen schickte. Und dieses Zeichen hieß: Man darf nicht vergessen, dass auf Verzweiflung wieder Freude und Glück folgen.

life, after all, is simply a series of little lives, each of them lived one day at a time, and every single one of those days has choices and consequences.

He waved a greeting. Though I waved back, I knew it was a farewell of sorts. While I considered them friends, I doubted we would speak again. It was their time, at last.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

We are in the final minutes in the day of our lives, and the clock is ticking. Loudly. I wonder if I am the only one who can hear it.

when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really wanted

In spite of the direction his medical practice had taken in later years, he'd always remained less interested in appearance than those things a person couldn't see: kindness and integrity, humor and sensibility.

People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

He breathed deeply when he reached the sand, tasting salt in the air, feeling like the foreigner he was.

listening to the distant and imagined echo of waves as they broke along the shore on a stormy night in Rodanthe.

God is with you, He must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I've ever met

I've talked too much, and I know that my life must be boring compared to yours. No so much about my parents, of course, but living here, I mean. No it's not boring at all. It's interesting. Kind of like... reading a new book when you turns the pages and experience something unexpected.

The sun has come up and I am sitting by a window that is foggy with the breath of a life gone by.

the past can only be escaped by embracing something better, and he figured that was what she'd done.

Yet, looking back, I believe that if I've done one thing right, it has been to love my wife throughout our years together.