Nicholas Sparks Quotes

...The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time.

"No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something."

If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life.

I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

There are ghosts and there is love, And both are present here,
To those who listen, this tale will tell
The truth of love and if it's near.

Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen

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...

Why? Do you want to rescue me, too, Taylor? … That's what you're trying to do, isn't it? … I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it's not what I need right now. I need to handle this my own way.

Mitch...was the kind of man who added something to everything he touched and everyone he came in contact with. I was envious of his view on life. He saw it all as a big game, where the only way to win was to be good to other people, to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.

Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.

So many people these days, it seemed, believed that these things (personal fulfillment and self-esteem) could come only from work, not from parenting, and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

Even now, not a day goes by when I don't wish I could turn back the clock and change what happened.

I can no more give Jamie away than I can give away my heart. But what I can do is let another share in the joy that she has always given me.

It was...the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Oh, Garrett, who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?