If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

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About Nicholas Sparks

Portrait of 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

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

—Nicholas Sparks

You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.

—Nicholas Sparks in Two By Two

That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered―not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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Getting found almost always means being lost for a while.

—Anne Lamott in Small Victories

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In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing . . . then at that moment you will have perfect composure.

—Edward Weston

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Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.

—Firesign Theatre

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I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

—Francis of Assisi

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