Nicholas Sparks Quotes

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that would never change.

The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been.

As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.

I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

What's your horse's name? Horse. Sophia waited for the joke, but it didn't come. You call your horse 'Horse'? He doesn't mind. You should give him a noble name. Like Prince or Chief or something. It might confuse him now. Trust me. Anything is better than Horse. It's like naming a dog Dog. I have a dog named Dog. Australian Cattle Dog. He turned, his expression utterly matter-of-fact. Great herder. And your mom didn't complain? My mom named him.

His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.

I sometimes think to myself that I’m the last of my kind.

...I said everything that matters... Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

But trust me when I say that memories are funny things. Sometimes they're real, but other times they change into what we want them to be... But like I said, she's hurting, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that people in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should... And if it somehow doesn't work out between you, then you've got to understand that you can't look back anymore. It'll destroy you in the end, and destroy her as well. Neither one of you can keep living with regret, because it drains the life right out of you, and the very idea is enough to break my heart.

...there'd also been an unvarnished honestly in what they'd said. There were no hidden meanings, no secret attempts to pass judgment; as quickly as their disagreements had flared up, they'd pass.

The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.

You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be. I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just...ordinary.

...even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me.

...the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better.

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were,...