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"The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?"

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions 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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"I'll bet he light in the window."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"Life…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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"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, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. 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?"

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

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