Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

A mi modo de entender, todo hombre debería morir como ha vivido; en sus últimos momentos, debería estar rodeado y reconfortado por aquellas personas a las que siempre ha querido.

Nowadays, her physical condition was a source of constant preoccupation—sometimes she longed for the heedless way in which she once took her body for granted. Age revealed so many things about oneself, she mused.

Even the creek is still. In the darkness it looks like empty space, and I find that I'm drawn to its mystery.

can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

I want you to come with me to Zimbabwe.

I understood then what my aunt had been trying to tell me, just as I knew my parents still loved me. I knew they wanted the best for me, now and in the future. But they wanted to see their own feelings in the photos, not mine. They wanted me to see myself in the same way they did. My parents, I knew, wanted to see disappointment.

Amanda Cardinale, Abby Koons, Emily Sweet, and Sharon Krassney also deserve my thanks. I appreciate all that you do. The Cyrus family deserves my thanks not only for welcoming me into their home, but for all they've done with the film. And a special thanks goes to

soon as I heard it, I knew it was perfect! And finally, thanks to Jason Reed, Jennifer Gibgot, and Adam Shankman for their work on the film version

Él entornó los ojos mientras ella se apoyaba en su hombro, y en un instante, ya nada le importó. Ni la canción, ni el local, ni las otras parejas a su alrededor. Solo ella. Se entregó a la agradable sensación de sentir el cuerpo de Elizabeth tan cerca, pegado al suyo, y se movieron lentamente en pequeños círculos sobre el suelo lleno de serrín, perdidos en un mundo que parecía estar creado solamente para ellos dos.

That was the thing about battling cancer. The waiting. So much of the last few years had been about waiting. Waiting for the appointment with the doctor, waiting for treatment, waiting to feel better after the treatment, waiting to see whether the treatment had worked, waiting until she was well enough to try something new.

There is no teaching, there is only learning' over and over.

By that point, our adventures were long behind us, but for me it was more than enough, for the longest ride continued.

Y cuando un hombre es tan especial, lo sabes mucho antes de lo que crees posible. Lo reconoces instintivamente, y tienes la certeza de que, pase lo que pase, nunca habrá otro como él.

Tenía que admitir que todavía había muchos detalles que desconocía de él, pero de una cosa estaba segura: él la complementaba de una forma que nunca jamás habría pensado que fuera posible.

Do you need some Tylenol? No, I'm just getting old. Tylenol can't do much to fix that.

And while I tossed and turned, it dawned on me that love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his sext breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again.

What I can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

we always bring ourselves with us wherever we go.

I knew full well that none of those were the kinds of occupations they'd grown up dreaming about.

L'amore era il sentimento più potente, perché ti rendeva vulnerabile di fronte alla possibilità di perdere tutto ciò che importava davvero.

Recuerdo que en esos momentos pensé que aquel recorrido, aquel paseo hasta el altar, era el más difícil que nadie tendría que hacer jamás. En todos los sentidos, fue un paseo para recordar.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning