Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.