Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

Yelling between people in love is normal.

Marriage is more complex than we think.

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

I have a very intense marriage.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.