01c. 1965 ADLove is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
02c. 1965 ADI love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
03c. 1965 ADYou're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
04c. 1965 ADShe 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.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
05c. 1965 ADIt was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
06c. 1965 ADFor a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
07c. 1965 ADPeople come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
08c. 1965 ADAnd I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
09c. 1965 ADNever forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
10c. 1965 ADJamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
11c. 1965 ADYouth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
12c. 1965 ADI'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
13c. 1965 ADToo many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
14c. 1965 ADThat'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.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
15c. 1965 ADIt is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
16c. 1965 ADI've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
17c. 1965 ADEveryone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
18c. 1965 ADOur lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
19c. 1965 ADDo you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
21c. 1965 ADYou should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
22c. 1965 ADI suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
23c. 1965 ADYou 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.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
24c. 1965 ADIn the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
