Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

Love makes a good eye squint.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

I need you because I love you.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

I don’t want you to just be my tutor. I want you to be the girl I look for in the halls every morning and save a seat for in the cafeteria. I want you to be the one waiting for me when I walk off the field at my games. I want you to be the one I pick up the phone to call just to make me smile.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.