Top 500 Nicholas Sparks Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I’m writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?”

— Nicholas Sparks

352. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

354. “A life, after all, is simply a series of little lives, each of them lived one day at a time, and every single one of those days has choices and consequences. Piece by piece, those decisions help to form the people we become.”

— Nicholas Sparks

355. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

357. “Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

358. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

360. “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

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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

365. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

367. “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

368. “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

369. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

377. “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

378. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

381. “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

382. “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

383. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

385. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

387. “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

388. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

390. “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

391. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

393. “Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I’m the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don’t have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.”

— Nicholas Sparks

394. “It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good – and bad – to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.”

— Nicholas Sparks

395. “It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

397. “When I was seventeen, I don’t think I even knew what love was. But when it’s right, it’s right, and you just know it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

398. “Our guns couldn’t even reach them when they opened fire. So what do we do? Knowing we didn’t stand a chance? We engaged. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, they call it now. Went straight for them. We were the first ship to start firing, the first to launch smoke and torpedoes, and we took on both a cruiser and a battleship. Did a lot of damage, too. But because we were out front, we were the first to go dead in the water. A pair of enemy cruisers closed in and began firing, and then we went down.”

— Nicholas Sparks

399. “The rain blew in soft sheets, making the oncoming headlights shimmer.”

— Nicholas Sparks

400. “I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”

— Nicholas Sparks