# The Rescue

- Author: [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-rescue

## Quotes

> "Why? Do you want to rescue me, too, Taylor? … That's what you're trying to do, isn't it? … I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it's not what I need right now. I need to handle this my own way."

p. 308

> "Mitch...was the kind of man who added something to everything he touched and everyone he came in contact with. I was envious of his view on life. He saw it all as a big game, where the only way to win was to be good to other people, to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see."

p. 300

> "Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on..."

p. 314

> Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

p. 9

> So many people these days, it seemed, believed that these things (personal fulfillment and self-esteem) could come only from work, not from parenting, and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

p. 200

> Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.

p. 231

> "Even now, not a day goes by when I don't wish I could turn back the clock and change what happened."

p. 166