Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Quotes

• “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. May...”
• “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are ...”
• “Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, ...”
• “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time...”
• “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no...”
• “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, an...”
• “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like t...”
• “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and...”
• “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter...”
• “She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think...”
• “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ev...”
• “I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upw...”
• “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do tha...”
• “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversatio...”
• “I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for ...”
• “I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of q...”
• “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, ...”
• “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have l...”
• “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling...”
• “Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understandi...”
• “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
• “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
• “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
• “Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
• “It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”
• “Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-”
• “Every great love starts with a great story...”
• “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
• “If you're a bird... I'm a bird...”