Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Realizing that if she quit now, she would always wonder what would happened. And she didn't think she could live with that.

But I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he'd come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.

and for a brief moment she felt fifteen again. Felt as she hadn't in years, as if all her dreams could still come true.

Miles didn't know what to believe.

Te quiero -añadió él-. ¿Sabes cuánto te quiero? Más que todos los peces del mar juntos y hasta más lejos que la luna. Lo sé.

No hay nada como el amor. Deberías probarlo. Thibault se encogió de hombros. Quizás algún día.

A veces, las cosas más sencillas y normales podían convertirse en acontecimientos extraordinarios, simplemente si las llevaban a cabo las personas adecuadas.

He remembered forming his own ideas about the world, and his years as a teacher only reinforced the idea that change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Besides, I never knew that person. The person I've come to know is the one I want to get to know even better.

that there were people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

To me, that's what traveling should be about. Meeting people, learning to not only appreciate a different culture, but really enjoy it like a local, follow whatever impulse strikes you. My advice would be to make a list of laces on some index cards shuffle them, and pick any five a random. Then just go and see what happens. If you have the right mind-set, it doesn't matter where you end up or how much money you have brought. It'll be something you'll remember forever.

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 judgment.

Please, Lord, tell me what to do! "Mom?" I said later that night. "Yes?" We were sitting on the sofa in the den, the fire blazing before

She'd lived almost an entire life, but had accomplished nothing extraordinary. She'd made no permanent mark on the world, nor would she ever, but if love was all that really mattered, she understood that she'd been singularly blessed. She decided to rest

Worrying, after all, had its roots in disapproval—

love required time and a multitude of shared experiences. Yet my feelings for Morgan grew stronger by the

The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.

You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

Jane is outgoing and kind, with a natural empathy that endears her to others. She

and that scared her. Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could never let that happen.

These days, kids are scheduled from morning to night because parents have demanded it, and London has been no exception.

And when I look at her face, a face I know better than my own, I know that I have meant as much or more to her. And that means more to me than I could ever hope to explain.