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Nicholas Sparks Quotes: 142

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..
The Notebook
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
A Walk to Remember
So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.
The Notebook
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
At First Sight
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Dear John
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
The Notebook
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
The Last Song
You're going to come across people in your life who will 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.
The Rescue
You are, and always have been, my dream.
The Notebook
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
The Notebook
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
The Notebook
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
The Notebook
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Dear John
Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
Message in a Bottle
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
The Notebook
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
The Notebook
You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
The Notebook
Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome
The Last Song
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
Message in a Bottle
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Message in a Bottle
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
The Last Song
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Nights in Rodanthe
And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.
Dear John
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
The Last Song
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
Dear John
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.
Dear John
Every great love starts with a great story...
The Notebook
Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
A Walk to Remember
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
Dear John
Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.
The Last Song
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
The Rescue
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
Dear John
I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.
Dear John
you have to love something before you can hate it.
The Last Song
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
The Notebook
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.
The Last Song
Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.
Three Weeks With My Brother
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
At First Sight
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Message in a Bottle
You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.
The Guardian
While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.
Nights in Rodanthe
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life
The Notebook
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Safe Haven
When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
Dear John
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
The Choice
love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
Dear John
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.
The Notebook
In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
Dear John
If you're a bird... I'm a bird...
The Notebook
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
Message in a Bottle
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
The Notebook
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
At First Sight
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.
The Last Song
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.
The Rescue
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
The Last Song
You really love her don't you,"she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?"I don't know."Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
The Notebook
This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.I love you, T.
Message in a Bottle
How far should a person go in the name of true love?
The Choice
I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
A Walk to Remember
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
The Rescue
I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition."I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful."Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me."I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.I smiled and gave her my word.
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
The Notebook
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.
The Wedding
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
Safe Haven
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
The Choice
Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
The Notebook
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
Dear John
He was the toast to her butter.
The Lucky One
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.
Safe Haven
You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Dear John
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
The Notebook
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.
The Wedding
Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...
Dear John
I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested.No?”Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
The Last Song
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Dear John
Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.
The Last Song
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.
Three Weeks With My Brother
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
Nights in Rodanthe
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.
Safe Haven
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Safe Haven
Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.
Dear John
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
The Rescue
Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
A Walk to Remember
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
The Notebook
What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.
A Walk to Remember
I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.