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It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

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People, Trying, Add

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

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Past, Focus, Gone
"The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.

He was the toast to her butter.

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Funny, Sweet Love, Toasts

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

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Sad, Grief, Reality
Twitter post from May 27, 2012

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

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Love, Thinking, World
Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Longest Ride”, p.331, Hachette UK

Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.

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Fall, Thinking, Azaleas

Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

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People, Hardship, Grows

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.

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Strong, Couple, Commitment
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 30, 2012

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

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Notebook, Thinking, Parent

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

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Growing Up, Thinking, Parent
Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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.

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Confused, Years, Two
Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.134, Hachette UK

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

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Important, Anticipation, Never Forget
Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.28, Hachette UK

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

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Men, Thinking, Romance
The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

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Falling In Love, Safe Haven, Feelings
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 02, 2011

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

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Writing, Fiction, Stories

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

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Love Is, Literature, Term

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

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People, Care, Mets

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

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Seeing
"The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

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Together, Way, Want

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

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Pain, Joy, Should

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

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Funny Things, People, Choices
Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.

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Missing
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.40, Hachette UK

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

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Democracy, Partnership

There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.

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Couple, Past, Phrases

That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

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Nicholas Sparks (2013). “At First Sight”, p.62, Hachette UK

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