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“conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Where do I go from here?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only
to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people’s lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and
all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“It always amazes me that once you cut through the clutter, people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same things, but somehow no one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don’t quite understand but shouldn’t be underestimated.…”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Hope, he learned, was sometimes all a person had”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today. And what that means is I can never replicate that trip. Even if I went to the same places and met the same people, it wouldn't be the same.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice