Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?" "We weren't," he said. "We were in love.

There's nothing you can tell me that will change how I feel about you. Nothing. Because that isn't you. It's never been you. You're the woman I've come to know. The woman I love.

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

is love at first sight truly possible?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

I want you to be.... happy.

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped, like perfect complements.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.