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I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.

I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.

Nicholas Sparks
Memories, I've Learned

"Please... don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family"... "I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no."

Nicholas Sparks
Giving Up, Love You, Responsibility
"The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

Nicholas Sparks
Heart, Son, Done
"The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

Change isn't always for the best.

Nicholas Sparks
Best Of Me
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.79, Hachette UK

Men like women who know how to be subtle.

Nicholas Sparks
Men, Subtle, Know How
Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.141, Hachette UK

And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

Nicholas Sparks
Summer, Firefly, Air
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.43, Hachette UK

She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.

Nicholas Sparks
Couple, Two, People
"The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.

Nicholas Sparks
Generations, Grass, Best Of Me
"The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October, 2011.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

Nicholas Sparks
People, Honor, Sorrow
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 20, 2012

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

Nicholas Sparks
Magic, Hard

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
Risk, Might, Free Life

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

Nicholas Sparks
Father, Lying, Secret

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Nicholas Sparks
Thinking, Realizing, Knows

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Nicholas Sparks
Easy

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

Nicholas Sparks
Men, Hands, Mind
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.117, Hachette UK

Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.

Nicholas Sparks
Perfect, Perfect Love, Persons

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
People, Psychology, Opinion

Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts.

Nicholas Sparks
Girl, Heart, Littles
Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.21, Hachette UK

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

Nicholas Sparks
Said, Best Of Me, Felt
Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

Nicholas Sparks
Moments, Wanted, Decided
"Three Weeks with My Brother". Book by Michael Earl Sparks and Nicholas Sparks, 2001.

My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away. This girl you been tellin' me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she'll stay with you forever.

Nicholas Sparks
Girl, Falling In Love, First Love

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
Important, Might, Term

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Nicholas Sparks
Thinking, Lines, Might

I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

Nicholas Sparks
Together, Ends, Best Of Me
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.81, Hachette UK

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
Who Cares, Made, Turns

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