We’re not the same people we were then.In my mind it’s a little bit of both… ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.Every great love starts with a great story… ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook.Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons.The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees learning from each other and growing in love. I’m not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us.How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it.But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common: They were crazy about each other. They fought all the time and they challenged each other every day. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. When you cry, I cry and when you hurt, I hurt. In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own.I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. By then, you’d gone on with your life and I didn’t want to think about you loving someone else. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find.
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.
It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. We sit silently and watch the world around us.Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. She made me who I am and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.
That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.Best ‘The Notebook’ Quotes by Nicholas Sparks