Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of 'what if' questions that could never be answered.

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...

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He'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Guardian

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

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Lucky One

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

—Nicholas Sparks in Three Weeks With My Brother

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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