Nicholas Sparks Quotes (335 Quotes)

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

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

Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he'd wanted more in their relationship than she'd been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs.

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

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

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

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

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...

While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...

I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop;...

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

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

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Your love is like the wind...you cant see it, but you can feel it...

I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

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.

A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them...

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again

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.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?