Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

More about this quote

Tags:

love relationships regret church marriage

Permalink for this quote

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 twenty-three novels, all New York Times bestsellers, and two works of nonfiction, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages. Among his works are The Notebook, A Walk...

More quotations from Nicholas Sparks

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

More about this quote

Tags:

accidents mistakes

Permalink for this quote

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

More about this quote

Tags:

love romance

Permalink for this quote

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

More about this quote

Tags:

action life advice ownership self trust control

Permalink for this quote

Change isn't always for the best.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

More about this quote

Tags:

change

Permalink for this quote

Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That's never happened to me before, and I'm not sure it'll ever happen again. I've never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I'd be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Choice

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

More quotations tagged with “marriage”

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

More about this quote

Tags:

children marriage home challenge

Permalink for this quote

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

More about this quote

Tags:

love friendship relationships marriage

Permalink for this quote

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it?

—Florynce Kennedy

More about this quote

Tags:

nobility marriage motherhood welfare

Permalink for this quote

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

More about this quote

Tags:

love children marriage duty

Permalink for this quote

Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me. . . . It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships. . . . Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.

—Wendell Berry

More about this quote

Tags:

fear perspective pain marriage comfort

Permalink for this quote