Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.

When I make a commitment to someone, it is for the smooth road and the rocky road.

Once respect comes, then loves come, and when love comes, a really healthy relationship comes, you know? If you don't have that, things just crumble.

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.

My time with my father would be very meaningful, but also very short.

For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.