01c. 1965 ADI mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
02c. 1965 ADEvery couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
03c. 1965 ADEvery couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
04c. 1965 ADTheresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
05c. 1965 ADIt'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 / quote ↗
06c. 1965 ADHe thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
07c. 1965 ADThere are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
08c. 1965 ADIt was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
09c. 1965 ADIt hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
10c. 1965 ADDo you want a cookie?- What?- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?- No.- How can you not want a cookie?- I just don't.- Okay, fine,let's say you did want a cookie. Let's say you were dying for a cookie, and there were cookies in the cupboard. What would you do?- I'd eat a cookie?- Exactly. That's all I'm saying.- What are you saying?- That if people want cookies, they should get a cookie. It's what people do.- Let me guess. Dad won't let you have acookie?- No. Even though I'm practically starving to death, he won't even consider it. He says I have to have a sandwich first.- And you don't think that's fair.- You just said you'd get a cookie if you wanted one. So why can't I? I'm not a little kid. I can make my own decisions.- Hmm. I can see why this bothers you somuch.- It's not fair. If he wants a cookie, he can have one. If you want a cookie,you can have one. But if I want a cookie, the rules don't count. Like yousaid, it's not fair.- So what are you going to do?- I'm going to eat a sandwich. Because I have to. Because the world isn't fairto ten-year-olds.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
11c. 1965 ADAs Confucius once said, "He who does nothing is the one who does nothing."'Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. 'did Confucius really say that?'Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. 'No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?'Gabby put her hands on her hips. 'Or maybe you just wanted to be lazy.'Stephanie grinned. 'Like Jesus said, "Blessed are the lazy who lie in boats, for they shall inherit a suntan."''Jesus didn't say that.''True,' Stephanie afreed, sitting up. She removed her glasses, stared through them, then wiped them on a towel. 'But again, who cares?Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
13c. 1965 ADPeople didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
14c. 1965 ADAlways stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
16c. 1965 ADThere's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but...a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can't help but wonder if they're nuts." - LoganNicholas Sparks / quote ↗
17c. 1965 ADI'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year." - NanaNicholas Sparks / quote ↗
18c. 1965 ADDaddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
19c. 1965 ADA living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
20c. 1965 ADThings changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
21c. 1965 ADChange not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
22c. 1965 ADWe're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
23c. 1965 ADYet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
24c. 1965 ADThat speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.Nicholas Sparks / quote ↗
