“People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.”
“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man – the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.”
“Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.”
“I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.”
“If pinpointing God’s presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.”
“Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.”
“He liked her; it was as simple as that.”
“I suppose more than anything, it’s the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.”
“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
“It’s hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won’t be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don’t know what to say.”
“If you’re going to sit on someone’s tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”
“The search for God’s presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”
“I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.”
“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.”
“I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.”
“But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other’s arms.”
“As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn’t have traded the few days i spent with him for anything.”
“If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.”
“A joy as intense as pain.”
“People were destined for one another; that’s the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.”
“Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?”
“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.”
“While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them.”
“Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.”
“Say I’m a bird.”
“I’d like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.”
“The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.”
“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.”
“I have seldom been described as shy.”
“Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.”
“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?”
“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”
“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”
“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”
“As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they’d lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”
“There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you’re automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.”
“That’s my sweetheart in there. I’m not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.”
“I’m a novelist at heart. How’s that? And that’s how I make my living, is I write novels.”
“I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.”
“What the younger generation didn’t understand was that the grass was greenest where it’s watered...”
“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”
“As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”
“In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic – that was never a novel. If I see an idea that’s been done in film, I try to avoid that.”
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