"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.."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it"
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)
"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. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Loves is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It dose not take offense and is not resentful. Love take no pleasure in others people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)
"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"
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Three Weeks with My Brother)
— Nicholas Sparks (Three Weeks with My Brother)
"If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
"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"
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome"
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Guardian)
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
"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"
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
tags: grief
934 people liked it"love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
tags: god
836 people liked it"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
"In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
tags: love
790 people liked it"And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"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."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."
— Nicholas Sparks
— Nicholas Sparks
"I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
"Noah: "You wanna dance with me?"
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're not supposed to dance in the street."
Noah: "You are supposed to dance in the street."
Allie: "Yeah, but we don't have any music."
Noah: "Well, we'll make some... Bum bum bum bum bum bum..."
Allie: "You're a terrible singer."
Noah: "I know."
Allie: "And I like this song."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're not supposed to dance in the street."
Noah: "You are supposed to dance in the street."
Allie: "Yeah, but we don't have any music."
Noah: "Well, we'll make some... Bum bum bum bum bum bum..."
Allie: "You're a terrible singer."
Noah: "I know."
Allie: "And I like this song."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)