Top 500 Nicholas Sparks Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

403. “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

404. “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

405. “Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?”

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Sparks

408. “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

409. “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

410. “I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion – give me a little fire, be strong, don’t be wishy-washy, do the right thing.”

— Nicholas Sparks

411. “Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.”

— Nicholas Sparks

412. “Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.”

— Nicholas Sparks

413. “If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.”

— Nicholas Sparks

414. “Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.”

— Nicholas Sparks

415. “Say I’m a bird.”

— Nicholas Sparks

416. “I’ll be the light in the window.”

— Nicholas Sparks

417. “Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”

— Nicholas Sparks

418. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

419. “Love burns across the infinitude.”

— Nicholas Sparks

420. “That life isn’t fair?” Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens.”

— Nicholas Sparks

421. “Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.”

— Nicholas Sparks

422. “A joy as intense as pain.”

— Nicholas Sparks

423. “Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they’d made their vows in front of God and family.”

— Nicholas Sparks

424. “If you have no conflict, you have no story. That’s number one. That’s a rule of novels.”

— Nicholas Sparks

425. “Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”

— Nicholas Sparks

426. “But most of all, what really attracted me to her was her manner. She laughed a lot, and it’s easy to fall for someone who can find humor in any situation. She was also intelligent, well read, and well spoken, willing to listen and confident in her beliefs. And most of all, she was warm.”

— Nicholas Sparks

427. “The two of you, there’s something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything – the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it’s always struck me as extraordinary. That’s another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I’m not sure I’ve found it yet. I’m not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything’s possible, right?”

— Nicholas Sparks

428. “I don’t know that I’ve ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.”

— Nicholas Sparks

429. “I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven.”

— Nicholas Sparks

430. “I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other’s voice.”

— Nicholas Sparks

431. “I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.”

— Nicholas Sparks

432. “I’ve learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.”

— Nicholas Sparks

433. “Men are like that sometimes – if they meet someone and fall in love, it’s real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man’s intentions.”

— Nicholas Sparks

434. “Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.”

— Nicholas Sparks

435. “For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.”

— Nicholas Sparks

436. “It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people’s lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.”

— Nicholas Sparks

437. “Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”

— Nicholas Sparks

438. “People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why.”

— Nicholas Sparks

439. “There’s nothing you can tell me that will change how I feel about you. Nothing. Because that isn’t you. It’s never been you. You’re the woman I’ve come to know. The woman I love.”

— Nicholas Sparks

440. “One of the things I’ve learned in my life is that sometimes you’ve got to take a chance.”

— Nicholas Sparks

441. “If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.”

— Nicholas Sparks

442. “I have a great wife and it’s very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she’s happy.”

— Nicholas Sparks

443. “I’d like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.”

— Nicholas Sparks

444. “These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.”

— Nicholas Sparks

445. “He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”

— Nicholas Sparks

446. “I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.”

— Nicholas Sparks

447. “As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?”

— Nicholas Sparks

448. “When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.”

— Nicholas Sparks

449. “They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.”

— Nicholas Sparks

450. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks