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Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks
It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.
In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.
She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.
I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her
I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.
And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.
There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
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.
But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.
I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.
Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?
All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.
I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.
Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.
Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.
I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.
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.
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.