“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: How To Love, Devotion, I Love You, Three Words, Love and Understanding
“While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Lost Love, Love Again, Second Chances, Inflicted Wounds
“Its funny but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? Its like they think it won't ever change.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Take For Granted, Change, Relationship Problems, Love Again
“When people ask me what it’s like to be a parent, I say that it’s among the hardest things you’ll ever do, but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”— Nicholas Sparks, Noah Calhoun, amazon.comTagged: Children, Family, Unconditional Love, Parenthood, Parent's Love
“Jane: Absence might make the heart grow fonder. Wilson: I don't think that's possible...You have no idea how much I love you.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.comTagged: I Love You, Heart Growing Fonder, Absence, Marriage
“But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Lost Love, Second Chances, Relationships, Marriage, Fighting
“I understand women. There’s no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn’t possible, so there’s no use trying. But that doesn’t mean you can’t love them anyway. And it doesn’t mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you.”— Nicholas Sparks, Noah Calhoun, amazon.comTagged: Hard To Love, Cold Heart, Men And Love, Relationships, First Love
“But sometimes, the curveballs end up smacking us in the chest and close to the heart, leaving bruises that never seem to heal.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Relationship Problems, Curveballs, Bruises, Life And Love, Compromise
“A lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it’s a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional...I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and mother,”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Life Goals, Relationship Goals, Marriage, Happy Life Happy Wife, Parents
“It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Divorce, Lost Love, Marriage Failing, Marriage
“Gifts of the heart can’t be claimed by anyone except the giver.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Giver And Taker, Heart and Love
“Spending time with one woman who also happened to be madly in love with me struck me as the best of all possible worlds.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Madly In Love, Time Spent, Relationships, Best Friends And Lovers
“The experts’ advice on improving a marriage? To focus on the four As— attention, appreciation, affection, and attraction.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Relationship Advice, Love, Making Relationships Work, Attention, Appreciation
“And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete, and spending time with you just seemed right.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Only Woman In The World, Made Me Feel, One And Only, Listen, What Felt Right
“All marriages go through ups and downs, and I believe this is the natural consequence of couples that choose to stay together over the long haul.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Relationship Problems, Marriage Problems, Couples, Love Again
“I believe that if I’ve done one thing right, it has been to love my wife.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Right Choices, First Love, Marriage, Husband and Wife
“What are we, after all, without our memories, without our dreams?”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Life, Memories, Lost Dreams
“She views the world through a prism of black and white, right and wrong.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Right And Wrong, Black and White, World Views, Grey Areas
“Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Compromise, wedding, Husband and Wife
“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Precious Moments, Fading Love, First Love, Fighting, Passage Of Time
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.”— Nicholas Sparks, Wilson Lewis, amazon.comTagged: First Love, Lost Love, I Love You, Looking Back, Reflection
“I was dying on the inside, aching for all that we’d lost, and as I stared at our wedding photograph, I hated myself for allowing it to happen.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Lost Love, Hate And Love, Heartache, Blame, wedding
“I come here because this place is special to me. It was here, after all, that I first realized I was in love with Jane, and while I know my life was bettered because of it, I must admit that even now I’m mystified by how it happened.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: mystifiedlove, First Love, Better Man, Better Life
“Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that’s the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: secondschances, loveagain, firstlove, fallinlove
“I know I can’t change the past, but I can change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Lost Love, Change, Past and Future, Hope, Faith