Nicholas Sparks Quotes - Page 4

What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

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.

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.