“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth...”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Men like women who know how to be subtle.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard that might be. He wanted to to make her hear his words: that he couldn't imagine a lofe without her,that his feelings for her were real. But most of all, he wanted to reassure himself that she felt the same way about him.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“You found out who you are and what you want and then you realized that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we’ve met.”
- Jeremy”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“I'd have to swing by the house first to change into something more comfortable.”
“That's fine,” he said. “I'm all for you changing into something more comfortable.”
“I'll bet you are,” she said knowingly.
“Now, don't start getting fresh,” he said, feigning offense. “I don't think we know each other well enough for that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“You’ve been giving me the full-court press since you got here, and we know what’ll happen if I let you through that door. But you’re leaving. And when you do, I’ll be the one who’s hurt afterward. So why start something you have no intention of finishing?”
- Lexie”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“...the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
“Moterys trokšta pasakos. Aišku, ne visos, bet daugelis nuo vaikystės svajoja apie vyrą, kuris dėl jų būtų pasiryžęs viskam, netgi žinodamas, kad gali likti pats įskaudintas.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from True Believer
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“Nature had once produced an Englishman whose domed head had been a hive of words; a man who had only to breathe on any particle of his stupendous vocabulary to have that particle live and expand and throw out tremulous tentacles until it became a complex image with a pulsing brain and correlated limbs. Three centuries later, another man, in another country, was trying to render these rhythms and metaphors in a different tongue. This process entailed a prodigious amount of labour, for the necessity of which no real reason could be given. It was as if someone, having seen a certain oak tree (further called Individual T) growing in a certain land and casting its own unique shadow on the green and brown ground, had proceeded to erect in his garden a prodigiously intricate piece of machinery which in itself was as unlike that or any other tree as the translator's inspiration and language were unlike those of the original author, but which, by means of ingenious combination of parts, light effects, breeze-engendering engines, would, when completed, cast a shadow exactly similar to that of Individual T - the same outline, changing in the same manner, with the same double and single spots of sun rippling in the same position, at the same hour of the day. From a practical point of view, such a waste of time and material (those headaches, those midnight triumphs that turn out to be disasters in the sober light of morning!) was almost criminally absurd, since the greatest masterpiece of imitation presupposed a voluntary limitation of thought, in submission to another man's genius.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Bend Sinister
“He stopped. “You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you”
― Iris Johansen, quote from The Killing Game
“You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that?" I informed Nana.”
― Laurie Notaro, quote from Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.”
― David Anthony Durham, quote from Acacia: The War with the Mein
“For a long time, I’ve known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
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