Quotes from Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.