“Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks - Quodid

I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise; in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

reality time carefreeness

Love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

Everything around me makes me miss you.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together as simply a by-product of the days and nights we spent by the sea, a "fling" that, in the long run, would mean absolutely nothing. That's why I don't tell people about us. They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was… how real this is.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and now, it was bringing only pain.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

About Nicholas Sparks

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Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He has published 24 novels, 16 of which are New York Times bestsellers, and two works of nonfiction, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide (92 million in the U.S. alone) in more than 50 languages. Among his works are The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle all of which, along with eight other books, have been adapted as feature films.

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