The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

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You are and always have been, my dream. ~ The Notebook

 

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me. ~ The Notebook

 

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. ~ The Notebook

 

The romantics would call this a love story; the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow. ~ The Notebook

 

You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper … and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. ~ The Notebook

We have lived a lifetime most couples never know, and yet, when I look at you, I am frightened by the knowledge that all this will be ending soon. ~ The Notebook

 

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love. ~ The Notebook

 

People watch us, for we are a walking miracle, or so I am told. ~ The Notebook

 

Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow I reach for you and find my heart.

 

I know there could never have been another. I knew it then and I know it now. ~ The Notebook

 

When I see you now -- moving slowly with new life growing inside you -- I hope you know how much you meant to me, and how special this year has been. No man is more blessed than me, and I love you with all my heart. ~ The Notebook

 

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life. ~ The Notebook

 

I realize the odds and sciences are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things. ~ The Notebook

 

And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever. ~ The Notebook

 

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. ~ The Notebook

 

It is the possibility that keeps me going … and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. ~ The Notebook

 

I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough. ~ The Notebook

 

I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. ~ The Notebook

 

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one who taught me the value of love. ~ The Notebook

 

The hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them, in fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn’t want to ever forget that. ~ The Notebook