“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Frequency of sex – Women sometimes wanted; men always needed.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“If a woman truly loves you, you can’t always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But that doesn’t mean they don’t love you.
If they do lie, it’s because they care.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“You can't see the forest for the trees.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Do trust have to be earned? Or is it simple a matter of faith?”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“if a woman truly loves you, you can’t always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and higher than the moon.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“Still, the belief in God was essentially a question of faith. Even for those, like Jeremy, who believed in the big bang theory, it said nothing about the creation of the sphere in the first place. Atheists would say the sphere was always there, those with faith might say that God created it, and there was no way ever to prove which group was right. That’s why, Jeremy figured, it was called faith. Still,”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“he was choosing the pace of his life rather than having his life choose the pace. Being”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“He didn’t want to believe it, couldn’t force”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“-Te quiero -añadió él-. ¿Sabes cuánto te quiero?
- Más que todos los peces del mar juntos y hasta más lejos que la luna. Lo sé.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from At First Sight
“The point of sex is...
Sex doesn't have a point.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from By Nightfall
“I have always enjoyed watching women dress. The appeal isn't sexual. Most girls' first glimpse of private female life is watching their mothers dress and put makeup on. It makes sense that we'd find it comforting. Childhood fascinations often crystallize this way. Isn't beauty forever defined, in a sense, by the first things we found beautiful? Surely part of my pleasure results from the inundation of images that we all experience. But I also love ritual, and it is a mesmerizing one. I enjoy the ritual of dressing myself, too. It is a form of basking in a kind of femininity that I am opposed to as an ideal, but for better or worse, I think we all fetishize the female body, and intellectualization doesn't spare anyone the obsession.”
― Melissa Febos, quote from Whip Smart: A Memoir
“Put a man in a cage with beasts and throw away the key, and it’s usually not very long before the man is a beast himself.”
― quote from Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
“I knew I had an ugly life. I knew I was lonely and I was scared. I thought something might be wrong with my father, wrong in the worst possible way. I believed he might contain a pathology of the mind--an emptiness--a knocking hollow where his soul should have been. But I also knew that one day, I would grow up. One day, I would be twenty, or thirty, or forty, even fifty and sixty and seventy and eighty and maybe even one hundred years old. And all those years were mine, they belonged to nobody but me. So even if I was unhappy now, it could all change tomorrow. Maybe I didn't even need to jump off the cliff to experience that kind of freedom. Maybe the fact that I knew such a freedom existed in the world meant that I could someday find it.
Maybe, I thought, I don't need a father to be happy. Maybe, what you get from a father you can get somewhere else, from somebody else, later. Or maybe you can just work around what's missing, build the house of your life over the hole that is there and always will be.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from A Wolf at the Table
“Years ago when he had been at college, Edward had shown him how to change sheets from under a sleeping man. Harper had spent a few weeks after that stealing the sheets from under his fellow seminary students.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
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