It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

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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...

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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.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Lucky One

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

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

—Nicholas Sparks in Three Weeks With My Brother

I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I can't really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff

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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

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Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

—Rabbi Julius Gordon

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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time.

—Laurens Van der Post

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