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Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Nicholas Sparks
People, Worry, Feel Good
Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.57, Hachette UK

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

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Blow, Destiny, Wind

It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.

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Love You, Purpose, Arms

Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.

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Soul, Together, Like You
"The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

You have the Best Of Me.

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Best Of Me

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

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Notebook, Sunset, Mean
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 17, 2012

Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

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Self, Giving, My Best Friend

Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.

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Believe

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

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Love, Romantic, Time

She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

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Reading, House, Forever

I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.

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Crush, Romantic Love, Personality

You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.

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Love, Notebook, Dream
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.106, Hachette UK

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

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Stars, Sky, Joy

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

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Change, People, Rolling Along
"Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

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Girl, Looks, Done
Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

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Growing Up, Thinking, Guy
Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.131, Hachette UK

In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

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Love, Notebook, Summer
"The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

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Love, Change, People
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 25, 2011

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

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Love, Like Her, Like You
Twitter post from May 10, 2012

I've come to understand that arguing with [my wife] about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words every woman wants to hear: "You're right, sweetheart.

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Eye, Hands, Wife
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 29, 2012

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

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Writing, Doors, Two

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

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Truth, Thinking, Want
Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.38, Hachette UK

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

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Simple, Air, Car
Nicholas Sparks (2001). “A Bend in the Road”, p.24, Hachette UK

An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

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Notebook, Summer, Taken
FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 10, 2011

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

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Grief, Way, Helping

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