Top 500 Nicholas Sparks Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

352. “By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he’d been, she’d never live down what she’d done, and since there wasn’t a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.”

— Nicholas Sparks

353. “I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

— Nicholas Sparks

354. “None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

355. “If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.”

— Nicholas Sparks

356. “I’m writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?”

— Nicholas Sparks

357. “In all my life, I’d never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.”

— Nicholas Sparks

358. “We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.”

— Nicholas Sparks

359. “Don’t let fear govern your decision.”

— Nicholas Sparks

360. “Everyone’s entitled to a bad day.”

— Nicholas Sparks

361. “It wasn’t as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.”

— Nicholas Sparks

362. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

363. “Finding something like that in a war is like finding an angel in hell so i kept it with me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

364. “The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.”

— Nicholas Sparks

365. “Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it’s admirable. A lot of people don’t have the courage it takes to do something like that.”

— Nicholas Sparks

366. “There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”

— Nicholas Sparks

367. “A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.”

— Nicholas Sparks

368. “She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.”

— Nicholas Sparks

369. “I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last.”

— Nicholas Sparks

370. “At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

371. “He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn’t naive, though. “Trust people,” he would tell me, “until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.”

— Nicholas Sparks

372. “In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

374. “For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

— Nicholas Sparks

375. “If he weren’t so damn cute, none of this would have happened.”

— Nicholas Sparks

376. “I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

377. “I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.”

— Nicholas Sparks

378. “He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they’d once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.”

— Nicholas Sparks

379. “All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I’ve never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.”

— Nicholas Sparks

380. “It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she’d never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

— Nicholas Sparks

381. “Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...”

— Nicholas Sparks

382. “If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

383. “More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he’d seen on Pastor Harris’s face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn’t help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God’s truths like a child searching for seashells.”

— Nicholas Sparks

384. “The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.”

— Nicholas Sparks

385. “People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”

— Nicholas Sparks

386. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

387. “I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” – John Tyree.”

— Nicholas Sparks

388. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

389. “Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.”

— Nicholas Sparks

390. “You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

391. “Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.”

— Nicholas Sparks

392. “Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms – primarily those values and norms influenced by family – were more important.”

— Nicholas Sparks

393. “Denial is an ugly thing.”

— Nicholas Sparks

394. “Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”

— Nicholas Sparks

395. “You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.”

— Nicholas Sparks

396. “It’s probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn’t even try, where would we be today?”

— Nicholas Sparks

397. “How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”

— Nicholas Sparks

398. “I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.”

— Nicholas Sparks

399. “It’s easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.”

— Nicholas Sparks

400. “Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”

— Nicholas Sparks