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I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.


Nicholas Trandahl

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Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in you...
NICHOLAS EVANS The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of t...
NICHOLAS GOODISON For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the de...
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To re...
NICHOLAS ROWE To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
NICHOLAS ROWE Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children...
NICHOLAS SPARKS People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
NICHOLAS SPARKS I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium vol...
NICHOLAS SPARKS In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the e...
NICHOLAS SPARKS He liked her; it was as simple as that.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS you have to love something before you can hate it.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
NICHOLAS BRETON The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT Speak to me of love, said St Francis to the almond tree, and the tree blossomed.
NICHOLAS KAZANTZAKIS An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautiful...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes a...
NICHOLAS THARCHER People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT