Nicholas Sparks

“She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back”

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important”

“Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out”

“E imparai, con umiltà e fatica, ma imparai quello che dovevo fare, e che sarebbe stato ovvio per un bambino: la vita non è altro che un susseguirsi di tante piccole vite, vissute un giorno alla volta. Si dovrebbe trascorrere ogni giorno cercando la bellezza nei fiori e nella poesia e parlando con gli animali. E nulla può essere migliore di un giorno colmo di sogni e di tramonti e di brezze leggere. Imparai soprattutto che la vita è sedere su una panchina sulla riva di un fiume antico, con la mia mano posata sul suo ginocchio e a volte, nei momenti più dolci, innamorarmi di nuovo.”

“Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas que fiz e cometo erros e passo grande parte do tempo a interrogar-me sobre quem sou realmente ou se a minha vida tem algum significado sequer. Não sou de modo nenhum uma pessoa especial, Dawson, e tens de perceber isso. Tens de compreender que sou apenas... uma pessoa vulgar.”

“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”

“Moterys trokšta pasakos. Aišku, ne visos, bet daugelis nuo vaikystės svajoja apie vyrą, kuris dėl jų būtų pasiryžęs viskam, netgi žinodamas, kad gali likti pats įskaudintas.”

“I know that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”

“Love can sometimes achieve the impossible”

“fazia-mos coisas muito simples, como atirar estrelas-do.mar ao mar ou partilhar um hambúrguer, e já nessa altura eu sabia que era uma afortunada. Eras o primeiro tipo que não estava sempre a tentar impressionar-me. Aceitaras-te como eras, mas, mais do que isso, aceitavas-me por aquilo que eu era. O que importava era só nós os dois.”

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“Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.”

“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.”

“Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.”

“You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town”

“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were”

“Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With the exception of doctors and lawyers or people who owned their own business, there were no high-paying jobs in Oriental, or any other small town for that matter. And while is was in many way an ideal place to raise young children, there was little for young adults to aspire to.There weren't, nor would there ever be, middle management positions in small towns, nor was there much to do on the weekends, or even new people to meet”

“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.”

“As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he’d been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.”

“I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.”

“I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simplya collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each dayshould be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking toanimals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshingbreezes cannot be bettered.”

“I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.”

“God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper and you have to listen very carefully to hear it.”

“But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22”

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .”

“Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness.”

“She wasn't fantasy anymore. But something real, something he couldn't imagine living without, and he crossed his arms, as if bracing himself from the possibility that all this might slip away.”

“He kept staring at you all night. For a moment there, I thought his eyes were attached to you by an invisible string.”

“Don't let fear govern your decision.”

“Al final, la gente que sufre tiene que ‘querer’ seguir adelante, que el primer paso, esa chispa de motivación, tiene que salir de ellos. Y cuando lo hace, abre la puerta a lo inesperado”

“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.”

“you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated, searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”

“I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”

“The world is a better place when you smile”

“Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.”

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

“It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”

“A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”

“If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.”

“Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand.Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up.Miles: Why not?Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

“The final stretch of the drive ended at a small cottage nestled in a grove of ancient live oaks. The weathered structure , with chipping paint and shutters that had begun to blacken at the edges, was fronted by a small stone porch framed by white columns. Over the years, one of the columns had become enshrouded in vines, which climbed toward the roof. A metal chair sat near the edge, and at one corner of the porch, adding color to the world of green, was a small pot of blossoming geraniums. The Best of Me”

“I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

“his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.”

“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”

“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”

“She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved.She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was.As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”

“They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again”

“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”

“When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?”