Book of Quotes

The Last Song

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

- “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” 

- “Mom says it's because she has PMS.

Do you even know what that means?

"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome” 

- “I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?” 

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

- “Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.” 

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

- “I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.” 

- “He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.” 

- “In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.” 

- “He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.” 

- “He liked her; it was as simple as that.” 

- “She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.” 

- “Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.” 

- “In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.” 

- “The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.” 

- “I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” 

I’m not hitting on you,” he protested.

No?”

Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.”

- “I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.” 

- “Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.” 

- “A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home” 

- “Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.” 

- “As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?” 

- “God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.” 

- “People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.” 

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

- “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. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.” 

- “At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...” 

- “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.” 

- “Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”

With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?”

He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.”

“I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.”

“Oh, because we’re so good-looking” 

- “It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester."

- Your parents must be so proud you can read."

- They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.”