Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

cold that I'm shivering. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't afraid. I don't want to die, and thanks to my parents—my

You're very handsome this evening. Did I buy you that shirt?" "Thank you," Colin said. "And yes, you did." "And that's a good thing, don't you agree? If I wasn't around, you'd probably be wearing one of those awful T-shirts with slogans on them." "I like those shirts." She patted his arm. "I know you do, bless your heart.

I'm sorry, I said again. Whenever someone tells you something sad, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you've already said it.

I am listening," he said. "I just hear the things you're not saying.

but I try to remind myself of the blessed years that we shared—especially now, when I am drowning in riptides of sorrow and loss.

Okavango Delta in Botswana to shots of the aurora borealis in Lapland. There were photographs taken as she'd hiked the Inca Trail, others from the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, still more among the ruins of Timbuktu. Twelve years ago, she'd learned to scuba dive and had spent ten days documenting marine life in Raja Ampat; four years ago, she'd hiked to the famous Paro Taktsang, or Tiger's Nest

Cuando alguien te engaña, la primera vez es culpa suya, la segunda vez, la culpa es tuya.

Los niños se ponen insoportables cuando empiezan a comprender el mundo de los adultos, sin tener la madurez de los adultos para enfrentarse a todo lo que pasa a su alrededor.

Un incontro banale, facile da dimenticare nel caso di qualsiasi altra ragazza. Ma mentre le stringeva la mano e fissava quegli smaglianti occhi di smeraldo, Noah non ebbe nemmeno il tempo di respirare una seconda volta. Capì subito che una donna così avrebbe potuto cercarla per tutta la sua vita senza trovarne una uguale.

sin embargo, a veces no podía evitar preguntarse por qué había dedicado tanto tiempo a cortejarla si ahora no hacía ningún esfuerzo para estar con ella.

the chain as if it had scalded her fingers. The locket tumbled down her blouse

perdidos en un mundo que parecía estar creado solamente para ellos dos.

Sé que he estado todas las vidas anteriores buscándote, no a alguien como tú, sino a ti, porque tu alma y la mía están predestinadas a continuar juntas.

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

Confía en las personas —me aconsejaba— hasta que te den motivos para no hacerlo. Y entonces no vuelvas a fiarte nunca.

The reason it hurts so much to be separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and always will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other.

remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.

ask Jamie to the dance, I didn't want anyone—even Mrs. Hastings—to see me there on the off chance that she'd already accepted Carey's offer. It was one thing to actually go with Jamie, it was another thing to be rejected by her in favor of a guy like Carey. "What are you doing?" Jamie asked me. "You're

I'm not proud of who I was back then, but I also know it's impossible to change the past.

Und deshalb glaube ich, dass Wunder, wie unerklärlich, wie unglaublich sie auch sind, wirklich geschehen können, ungeachtet der natürlichen Ordnung der Dinge.

She hoped he dreamed of playing with other children, children who responded to him, children who didn't shy away because he didn't speak. In his dreams, she hoped he was happy. God could at least do that much, couldn't he?

El amor puede conseguir lo imposible

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep

I read once that women love mysterious strangers.