Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.
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Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.
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Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning.
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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?
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That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.
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I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
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Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
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Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
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Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
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Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.
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And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.
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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.
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If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
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But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms.
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It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.
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Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW
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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
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Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.
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Everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.
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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.
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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.