Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

As a rule I take things as they come and try not to expect or regret much.

Life, it seemed was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could love parts of his life over again.

ella se quedó impresionada por la constatación de que, a veces, las cosas más sencillas y normales podían convertirse en acontecimientos extraordinarios, simplemente si las llevaban a cabo las personas adecuadas.

Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

Instead, it had more to do with the sense that somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

para mí, cada día que estoy contigo es el más importante de mi vida.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

As he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news

New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple.

but because giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past

While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.

On the trees surrounding me, the leaves are just beginning their slow turn toward the colour of fire..

Everything she did had a purpose, and though she believed she was keeping her life orderly in this way, she now realized that it had been a mistake. It

wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition

He wants to be a doctor completely devoted to his patients and a man completely devoted to his family. He cannot be both, for there aren't enough hours, but he has yet to learn this.

He fell asleep almost immediately but woke an hour later. Tiptoe-ing outside again, he went to check on the daughter he loved more than life itself.

Stille ist heilig. Sie verbindet Menschen, denn nur wenn man sich in Gegenwart eines anderen wirklich wohl fühlt, kann man schweigend beieinander sitzen. Das ist das große Paradoxon.

Mom says its because she has PMS. Steve almost choked but composed himself quickly. Do you even know what that means? Jonah pushed his glasses up. I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at-men syndrome.

It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

I love you, Jamie," I said again, but this time she wasn't frightened. Instead our eyes met across the table, and I watched as hers began to shine. She sighed and looked away, running her hand through her hair, then turned to me again. I kissed her hand, smiling in return. "I love you, too," she finally whispered. They were the words I'd been praying to hear.

Und ich lernte, stockend und langsam zwar, aber ich lernte trotz allem, was zu tun war. Lernte, was für ein Kind offensichtlich ist. Daß das Leben eine Kette von kleinen Leben ist und daß jedes einzeln für sich gelebt werden muß, Tag für Tag. Daß man jeden Tag versuchen sollte, sich an der Schönheit von Blumen und Gedichten zu erfreuen und zu Tieren zu sprechen.