Quotations from the book The last Song by Nicholas Sparks

“He knew it was a ridiculous fantasy, but without music he felt aimless and adrift.”

“What did he mean when he felt God’s prescence? How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.”

“… he’d really been searching for ways to fill his emptiness he sometimes felt inside him.”

“…people didnt changhe. They liked what they liked, even if they didnt know why.”

“Because i should have trusted my instincts…”

“The next you’re mad at me, talk to me. Don’t shut me out. I don’t like playing games.”

“There are guys who grow up thinking they’ll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person.”

“If the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“IMTF. In My Thoughts Forever.”

“… their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way -effortlessly clasped like perfect complements.”

“…he was as good as teasing her as he was at being teased.”

“…you have to love something before you can hate it.”

“Even though he didn’t always understand her, their differences somehow seemed to make their relationship stronger.”

“They talked endlessly. There didn’t seem to be enough time in the world to share everything they wanted to.”

“In the end you should always do the right thing, even if it’s hard. I knwo that might not help you and that the right things isn’t always so easy to figure out.”

“They see shades of gray where I see black and white.”

“They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized tha fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”

“But neither of those changes the way i feel about you. And my feeling aren’t going to change simply because I’m going to Vanderbilt.”

“…losing him seemed unbearable.”

“When i was seventeen, I don’t think I even knew what love was. But when it’s right, it’s righ, and you just know it.”

“As she stood beside the boy she loved, she knew she’d never shared anything more magical with anyone.”

“She needed more time with him. She needed him to listen as she whined; she needed him to forgive her when she made mistales. She needed him to love her the way he had this dummer. She needed all of it forever, and she knew it wouldnt happen.”

“If she hadn’t come to stay with him, if she hadn’t given him a chance, it might have been easier to let him go. But she had, and nothing about what was happening was going to be easy.”

“But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” – Galatians 5:22

“…for nothing is more fulfilling than love itself.”

“I have faith that be God will show you the answer. But you have to understnad that sometimes it take a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That’s how it often is. God’s voice is ussually more than a whisper, and you have to listen very careflly to hear it. but other times, in those rarest moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”

“there might be more to the story than meets the eye.”

“Life he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning ther is a mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

“God’s prescence was everywhere.”

“…she reminded her self that it was time to look ahead, not back.”