“Message In A Bottle” by Nicholas Sparks

But now, alone in my house, I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him, and I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

One of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out that you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

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

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

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

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

The unfair thing about the whole situation was that she still missed him sometimes, or rather the good parts about him.

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

About Nicholas Sparks

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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