Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas of what the other should be and do, but neither of us lived up to those expectations.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

People change and forget to tell each other.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

Suddenly, relationships go topsy-turvy, and guys often don't understand what's going on. I think a lot of men are in that boat.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.