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

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...

More quotations from Nicholas Sparks

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

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

change the world

I love you, and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Lucky One

love enjoyment pleasant company

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

People come, people go—they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Rescue

There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me.

—Nicholas Sparks in Nights In Rodanthe

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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.