Nicholas Sparks

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.”

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

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

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

“Everyone 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.”

“Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.”

“Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?”

“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”

“It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”

“Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-”

“He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.”

“I don't write romance novels.”

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

“And 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.”

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”