01c. 1965 ADDistance can ruin even the best of intentions.But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.People come. People go. They will 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 stories 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 ↗
02c. 1965 ADWhen you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
03c. 1965 ADMaybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
04c. 1965 ADI’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
05c. 1965 ADThe two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. 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?Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
06c. 1965 ADMom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndromeNicholas Sparks / quote ↗
07c. 1965 ADIf you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
08c. 1965 ADLogan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
09c. 1965 ADI have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
10c. 1965 ADNever forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
11c. 1965 ADIf pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
12c. 1965 ADMore than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
13c. 1965 ADI 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.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
14c. 1965 ADI mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk withhim.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
15c. 1965 ADShe wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
16c. 1965 AD...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
17c. 1965 ADHe was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
19c. 1965 ADThree weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
20c. 1965 ADFrugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
22c. 1965 ADIn our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
23c. 1965 ADYou have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me." I hesitated, know that if I stopped now, I'd never be able to say it to anyone. "I love you," I whispered. "Did you ever imagine something like this?" she wondered aloud. "You and me , I mean?" "No," I said. "It scares me a little." My stomach flipped, and all at once, I was sure she didnt feel the same way. "You dont have to say it back to me," I began. "That's not why I said it--" "I know," she interrupted. "You don't understand. I wasnt scared because you told me. I got scared because I wanted to say it, too: I love you, John.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
24c. 1965 ADBelieve me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
