Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.


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So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordina...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Every great love starts with a great story...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused.
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her jeans and sleeveless blouse.
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Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume.
Quando usado no jardim, servi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
NICHOLAS SPARKS
additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
- You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most peopl...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
NICHOLAS SPARKS
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS