Nicholas Sparks

Quotes

1. A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

   p. 325

2. 

   [Written on back of photograph of Ruth and Daniel]

   "Ruth LevinsonThird grade teacher.She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up.I can even change the world."

   p. 335

3. 

   "I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

   p. 326

4. 

   "My plea to you is this: despite your sadness, do not forget how happy you have made me; do not forget that I loved a man who loved me in return, and this was the greatest gift I could ever hope to receive."

   p. 328

5. 

   "'If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.'"

   p. 341

6. 

   The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been.

   p. 80

7. 

   "It was the way you looked at me while I looked at the art that changed me. It is you, in other words, who changed."

   p. 199

8. 

   "...I said everything that matters... Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you."

   p. 223

9. 

   Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards...and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.

10. 

    I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

    p. 74

11. 

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

    p. 236

12. 

    "Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future."

    p. 192