Quotes by Nicholas Sparks

My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Aspergers lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

I gave you the best of me.

Who did she know in Raleigh who took 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 werent the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldnt be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

Its possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you dont know it

Ill bet he light in the window.

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.

Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didnt seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carlys laughter, or know how deeply shed once loved them.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, theres nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. Id say that for 3 months, youre going to feel worse than youve ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isnt so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life

Hed lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

What can you do when youre condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover youd make?