Nicholas Sparks Quotes - Page 5

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

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 each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.

Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

No one ever said life was fair

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Every great love starts with a great story...

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man - the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.