Quotes by Nicholas Sparks

If youre a bird... Im a bird...

Someday youll find someone special again. People whove been in love once usually do. Its in their nature.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth hed been lucky enough to find her.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

I dont want to lose you. His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. But you dont want to keep me, either, do you? To that, he had no response.

You really love her dont you, she said.With all my heart.She looked as sad as Id ever seen her.Whats your heart telling you to do?I dont know.Maybe, she said gently,Youre trying to hard to hear it.

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we cant control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. Thats what it was like for me. I didnt plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and thats why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. Ill never forget a single moment of it.

This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.I love you, T.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, its often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while Ive often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that its possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when theres been a lifetime of disappointment between them.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

Id love to, she finally said,on one condition.I steadied myself, hoping it wasnt something too awful.Yes?You have to promise that you wont fall in love with me.I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldnt help but breathe a sigh of relief.Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.I smiled and gave her my word.

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Yes... it wasnt over, it still isnt over.

I guess what Im trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything Ive ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much youve always meant to me.

No, its not that. Its not what youre thinking. I was serious when I said all of it. I can remember every moment we were together, and in eachof them there was something wonderful. I cant really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another? Poets often describe love as an emotion that we cant control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. Thats what it was like for me. I didnt plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and thats why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. Ill never forget a single moment of it.