Nicholas Sparks Quotes & Sayings

I'll be the light in the window. — Nicholas Sparks

For there were times I caught them staring at me curiously. I never told them about my past or shared personal information. They knew nothing of Savannah or my dad or my friendship with Tony. Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. In — Nicholas Sparks

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks

Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted. — Nicholas Sparks

You should not complain, it's not attractive. — Nicholas Sparks

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him. — Nicholas Sparks

I've lost someone, too," he reminded her.
"It's not the same!" She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. "I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn't say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can't get those years back.
But maybe if I hadn't been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra ... stress that did all this. Maybe it was me! — Nicholas Sparks

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters. — Nicholas Sparks

... always together, forever apart. — Nicholas Sparks

I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him. — Nicholas Sparks

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep — Nicholas Sparks

When a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it. — Nicholas Sparks

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself? — Nicholas Sparks

I'm so sorry ... just please ... stay. Just tell me the truth, just tell me what happened. I don't care, I'm not going to let him hurt you anymore. Listen to me, I'm in love with you. If you stay I promise there's no safer place in the world than with me. You don't have to be scared ... I love you ... please stay. — Nicholas Sparks

If you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end. — Nicholas Sparks

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives. — Nicholas Sparks

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

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

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. — Nicholas Sparks

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that. — Nicholas Sparks

On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one. Perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father. — Nicholas Sparks

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot. — Nicholas Sparks

Is she here now?" Tuck — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story. — Nicholas Sparks

Question 6 asks you — Nicholas Sparks

Maybe he suspected something, maybe he'd simply been around long enough to know that fairytales seldom came true — Nicholas Sparks

And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up ... " "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago. — Nicholas Sparks

Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing. — Nicholas Sparks

That she had somehowtaken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me a then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was tah I'd never seen anyone more beautiful. — Nicholas Sparks

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves. — Nicholas Sparks

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone. — Nicholas Sparks

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She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too. — Nicholas Sparks

You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories."
"This is what people do in small towns?"
"We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos. — Nicholas Sparks

Memories are funny things. Sometimes they're real, but other times they change into what we want them to be, — Nicholas Sparks

If Mark's words had once made him angry, Martha's words left him stunned. He started to try to talk her out of it, but Martha gently cut him off. "Will you really miss me?" she said. "We hardly know each other anymore." "I can change," he said. Martha smiled. "I know you can. And you should. But you should do it because you want to, not because you think I want you to. — Nicholas Sparks

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as ... amazing somehow. — Nicholas Sparks

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. — Nicholas Sparks

It was tangible and real, close enough to allow me to dream of moving back to North Carolina; on the other hand, it unfortunately made time slow down. Isn't that the way it always is when you really want something? — Nicholas Sparks

After a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame. — Nicholas Sparks

That's the thing about life. A lot of time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try and make the best of it. Do you know what I mean? — Nicholas Sparks

There are no buts," she said. "Not about this. Not with me. I love you, Wilson, and I know that you love me. And if we're going to make it work between us, we're both going to have to give a little. I'm not asking you to believe. I'm asking you to it's acome with me to church. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even if you don't want to. Like I did with the wedding. — Nicholas Sparks

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

You found that picture for a reason. No one claimed it for a reason. You took it today for a reason. Only you were meant to have it. — Nicholas Sparks

There are some people in the world, and the reason they're not in jail is because they've learned how to hide it. — Nicholas Sparks

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over — Nicholas Sparks

There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives — Nicholas Sparks

Miracles do happen. — Nicholas Sparks

The ups and downs, the dreams and struggles, had all been part of the journey, she realized - a journey that led to a cattle ranch near a town called King, where she had fallen in love with a cowboy named Luke. — Nicholas Sparks

You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it. — Nicholas Sparks

for the back half of the hurricane still lies in wait and with it, sometimes even greater destruction. Which, — Nicholas Sparks

Life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; ... love wasn't enough. — Nicholas Sparks

Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form
no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing ...
The body, sluggish, aged , cold
the embers
left from early fires,
... shall duly flame again — Nicholas Sparks

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. — Nicholas Sparks

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all. — Nicholas Sparks

I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's — Nicholas Sparks

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before. — Nicholas Sparks

I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then. — Nicholas Sparks

Maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world. — Nicholas Sparks

Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it — Nicholas Sparks

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. — Nicholas Sparks

Invisible undercurrent in a town that had always been theirs. And they kept it — Nicholas Sparks

A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers. — Nicholas Sparks

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. — Nicholas Sparks

Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it — Nicholas Sparks

Why did you say you believed me ?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you. — Nicholas Sparks

But she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to. — Nicholas Sparks

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. — Nicholas Sparks

And maybe, just maybe, it will. — Nicholas Sparks

I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal ... — Nicholas Sparks

Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. — Nicholas Sparks

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home. — Nicholas Sparks

My father finally died a month before he turned 101, his license — Nicholas Sparks

In spite of the direction his medical practice had taken in later years, he'd always remained less interested in appearance than those things a person couldn't see: kindness and integrity, humor and sensibility. — Nicholas Sparks

What happens if a car comes?
We die. — Nicholas Sparks

It always amazes me that once you cut through the clutter, people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same things, but somehow no one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way. — Nicholas Sparks

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives? — Nicholas Sparks

Experience was the most painful of teachers. — Nicholas Sparks

She would tell him what she wanted in her life
her hopes and dreams for the future
and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her. — Nicholas Sparks

Why did you come here?
To find you. — Nicholas Sparks

And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes.
He didn't know how to stop them. — Nicholas Sparks

to do with his natural exuberance — Nicholas Sparks

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween ... — Nicholas Sparks

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

Love burns across the infinitude. — Nicholas Sparks

Tired soldiers made mistakes. Learn to sleep when it was time to sleep, no matter how chaotic things were, trusting it would be better the following day. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel. — Nicholas Sparks

I am always with you, Ira. — Nicholas Sparks

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love. — Nicholas Sparks

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next. — Nicholas Sparks

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. — Nicholas Sparks

But it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took to provide for your family. That was important to me. You have to understand that back then, a lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it's a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional. I wanted a family like my parents had, and I wanted to concentrate on my little corner of the world. I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and a mother, and someone who would respect my choice. — Nicholas Sparks

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 — Nicholas Sparks

he was glad that he'd never had to live near people who pushed paper for a living and weren't comfortable if the temperature at work wasn't exactly seventy-two degrees. — Nicholas Sparks

Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor. — Nicholas Sparks

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over. — Nicholas Sparks