# Quote — Nicholas Sparks, A Bend In The Road

> "If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life."

- Author: [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md)
- Book: [A Bend In The Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/a-bend-in-the-road.md)
- Page: 339
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#A_Bend_in_the_Road_(2001)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/a-bend-in-the-road/if-its-over-if

## More from this book

> There are ghosts and there is love,
>
> And both are present here,
>
> To those who listen, this tale will tell
>
> The truth of love and if it's near.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/a-bend-in-the-road/there-are-ghosts.md)

> Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/a-bend-in-the-road/where-does-a-story.md)

> "I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated."

p. 336 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/a-bend-in-the-road/i-dont-want.md)