Nicholas Sparks Quotes

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.

She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Regarding love what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I think a dream date for me is some kind of fantastic conversation where you end up learning something really wonderful about a person.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

It's a natural disposition for me to become muse-like in a relationship.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

The art of love is who you share it with.

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.