Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

He'd simply been around long enough to know that fairy tales seldom came true

He must have heard her, because he finally stood and turned with an automatic smile before registering the sight of her. His eyes widened as he absorbed the way she looked, his mouth slightly ajar. He seemed immobilized, struggling anf failing to find his voice. You're... Indescribablly beautiful, he finally whispered. Truly. He was in love with her, she realized with sudden force.

I wanted easy banter and deep communication and long periods when neither of us felt the need to say anything at all. (p. 168, Trevor Benson)

If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.

Me dije entonces que la oscuridad es sólo una ilusión, porque el sol está siempre encima o debajo del horizonte. Eso significa que la noche y el día están vinculados como pocas otras cosas;no puede existir el uno sin el otro, y sin embargo, tampoco pueden coexistit. ¿Cómo estar siempre juntos, y al mismo tiempo siempre separados?

The longer it goes on, the harder its going to be.

From the outside, my life seemed charmed, and I would say as much to anyone who asked. And yet deep down, part of me would also have known that I was lying.

I'm going to call you, okay? After I get back from Europe. She nodded, knowing it was all they had, yet knowing it wasn't enough. Their lives were on separate tracks, now and forever. The summer was over, and they were each moving on. pg. 383

Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?

that there's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you." On

The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.

I mean it, I said, and all at once, I knew: This is what I wanted; I wanted Natalie, not just for tonight, but for a lifetime of days and nights like the one we were having right now. (p. 169, Trevor Benson)

En momentos de pena y sufrimiento, te abrazaré y te reconfortaré, tomaré tu tristeza y la haré mía. Cuando llores, yo también lloraré, y cuando te sientas herida, yo me sentiré igual. Y juntos intentaremos controlar la marea de lágrimas y desesperación para seguir avanzando y sorteando las accidentadas sendas de la vida.

Yo no soy poeta. Leo poesía, pero jamás he podido escribir un solo verso. Y no porque no lo haya intentado.

The first time u fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard u try, the feeling never goes away. And no matter what u do, she'll stay with u forever.

Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy who makes you a better woman.

She cursed herself for forgetting something as important as creating beauty.

It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell

included, amidst a snowfall of more than a foot in a city with only a few snowplows available. By nightfall, the city of

I was IN THE DAMN SHOWER!

She knew that the initial feelings associated with love were almost like an ocean wave in their intensity, acting as the magnetic force that drew two people together. It was possible to be washed away in the emotion, but the wave wouldn't last forever. It couldn't—nor was it meant to be—but if two people were right for each other, a truer kind of love could last forever in its wake.

que la vida es simplemente una colección de vivencias a las que les ponemos un título, cada una de ellas de una duración limitada;

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.