Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.
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But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
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I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.
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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
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Love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.
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I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
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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.
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He liked her; it was as simple as that.
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I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
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One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.
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I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.
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It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.
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She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
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It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you.
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You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.
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Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
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As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
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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.