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Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Nicholas Sparks
Love, Untouchables, Ache

I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.

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Worry, Calendars, Our Relationship

Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

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Falling In Love, Real, Men

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

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Procrastination, Thinking, Experts

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

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Complicated
"A Bend in the Road". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2001.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

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Believe, Past, Perception
Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.130, Hachette UK

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

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Safe Haven, Needs, Firsts
Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.

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Stupid, Attention, Bruises

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

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Dog, Husband, Night

You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. 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.

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Guy, Together, World
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2011

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

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Punishment, Wife, Domestic Violence

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

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Long Ago, Different, Sometimes
Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.8, Hachette UK

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

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Blue, Lucky, I've Learned

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

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Talking, Appreciate, People
Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.93, Hachette UK

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

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Husband, Missing, Elements

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

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Girl, Regret, Father

Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning.

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Toasts

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

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Honesty, Lying, Thinking

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

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Boys, Bad Boy, Peanuts
Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

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Heart, Watches, Message In A Bottle
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.25, Hachette UK

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

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Distance, Lying, House
Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.175, Hachette UK

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

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Might, Happens, Comfortable

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

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Funny, May, Irresponsible

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.

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Love You, Thinking, Long
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 02, 2016

And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

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Notebook, Summer, Tree
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.92, Hachette UK

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