Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I used to love the idea of being in love, even though I hadn't been in love before.

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I think strong feelings make good songs.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

A first love always occupies a special place.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I was adored once too.