Nicholas Sparks quotes - page 22

...it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind...through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences: A. It's your life + social commentary. B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. C. No one ever said that life was fair. (Nicholas Sparks)
The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been. View quote
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In other words, when the going get tough, the tough get going. View quote
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She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: Gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. View quote
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That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option. View quote
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He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know. View quote
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...even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. View quote
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...He was with the woman and daughters he loved, and who could ever need or want anything more than that?...It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all, it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be. View quote
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As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you. View quote
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But would she do it differently if she could? She doubted it. Her experiences growing up ad formed her into the woman that she'd become, just as his experiences had formed him, and she didn't regret them. And yet...she knew that wasn't the question that mattered. ...she realized the choice before her was this: Where do I go from here? It is never too late to change things. View quote
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I sometimes think to myself that I'm the last of my kind. (Nicholas Sparks)
It was like a vacation, one he hadn't planned for, but one that left him feeling more rested than he had in years. For the first time in what seemed like forever, he was choosing the pace of his life rather than his life choosing the pace. Being bored, he decided, was an underrated art form. View quote
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I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war. View quote
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...people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same thing, but somehow on one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way. View quote
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Nowadays, she thought, it was the little things in life that mattered. If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was. View quote
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My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. View quote
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As much as I love her, I admit that she has always remained somewhat of an enigma to me... I liked this about her. I liked the mystery she added to my life. I liked the occasional silence between us, for ours was a comfortable silence. It was a passionate silence, one that had its roots in comfort and desire. View quote
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Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. View quote
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I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. View quote
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Rekindled love is generally short-term. View quote
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Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible. (Nicholas Sparks)
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. View quote
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In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. View quote
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. View quote
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. View quote
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