Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered— not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

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... 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.

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Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.

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... I said everything that matters... Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

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Like I said, you're in this together. Men have certain needs, women have different needs; that's the way it was hundreds of years ago, and that's the way it's going to be hundreds of years from now. If you both realize that, and you both work on meeting each other's needs, you'll have a good marriage. And part of that, for both of you, is trust. In the end, it's that simple.

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The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

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Nowadays, she thought, it was the little things in life that mattered. If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was.

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... I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming.

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There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

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It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you

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

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That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

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And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.

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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.

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Long-term relationships—the ones that matter—are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.

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Dreams are funny like that. You want something so desperately, you somehow get it, then just as suddenly it's over. Like running races—all that training for a couple of minutes on the track. The secret, I've learned, is to appreciate the process.

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

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... people who are grieving have to want to move on—that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

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She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

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Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he'd come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.

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In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

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I've come to believe that children live for the satisfaction of surprising their parents...

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That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

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Writing is easy. It's just the typing that's hard.

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But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse—a lot worse— but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

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... it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind... through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences:
A. It's your life + social commentary.
B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
C. No one ever said that life was fair.

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By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

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I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me. I'm not hitting on you, he protested. No? Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

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I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

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When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

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