"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, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it"
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

"We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition."
I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful.
"Yes?"
"You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me."
I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.
I smiled and gave her my word."
— Nicholas Sparks

"There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

""You really love her don't you," she said.
"With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
"What's your heart telling you to do?"
"I don't know."
"Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.""
— Nicholas Sparks

""You should read something else."
"Why would he have done that to him?"
"I don't know," she said.
"Do you ever feel like Job?"
She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.
"Sometimes."
"But you haven't lost your faith?"
"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.
"Is it because you think you might get better?"
"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.""
— Nicholas Sparks

"Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"Eventually I came across another passage.
This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earrnistness of others.
The words made me choke up agian, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear.
God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do."
— Nicholas Sparks

"When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
This is crazy.
I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it."
— James Cameron (James Cameron's Titanic)

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"'Cause getting your dreams
It's strange, but it seems
A little -- well -- complicated
There's a kind of a sort of : cost
There's a couple of things get : lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!"
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"Duke: They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Without suffering, there'd be no compassion."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

"An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Noah: "You wanna dance with me?"
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're not supposed to dance in the street."
Noah: "You are supposed to dance in the street."
Allie: "Yeah, but we don't have any music."
Noah: "Well, we'll make some... Bum bum bum bum bum bum..."
Allie: "You're a terrible singer."
Noah: "I know."
Allie: "And I like this song.""
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"We can't all come and go by Bubble!"
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."
— Nicholas Sparks

"And when her lips meet mine, I feel a strange tingling I have never felt before…and suddenly a miracle…and I discover a forgotten paradise, unchanged all this time, ageless like the stars. I feel the warmth of her body, and…I allow myself to slip away. I close my eyes and become a mighty ship in churning waters, strong and fearless, and she is my sails."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)

"So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that’s what you really wanted. But don’t you take the easy way out."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"GLINDA: Well,I'm a public figure now! People expect me to--

ELPHABA: Lie?

GLINDA: (fiercely) Be encouraging! And what exactly have you been doing? Besides riding on around on that filthy thing!

ELPHABA: Well, we can't all come and go by bubble. Whose invention was that, the Wizard's? Of course, even if it wasn't, I'm sure he'd still take credit for it.

GLINDA: Yes, well, a lot of us are taking things that don't belong to us, aren't we?

Uh oh! The two stare daggers at each other, then...

ELPHABA: Now, wait just a clock-tick. I know it's difficult for that blissful blonde brain of yours to comprehend that someone like him could actually choose someone like me!But it's happened. It's real. And you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want, you can't change it! He never belonged to you -- he doesn't love you, he never did! He loves me!"
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"Let the green girl go!"
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"Those who don't try never look foolish."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!"
— Wizard from Wicked the Musical

""Its just life, so keep dancing through""
— Wicked (the musical)

"No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow."
— Fiyero from the musical Wicked

"Glinda: Dearest mumsy and popsicle

Elphaba: Mear dear father

Both: There's been some confusion over rooming here at shiz

Elphaba: but of course I'll care for Nessa,

Glinda; but of course I'll riiiiissseee above it

Both: for I know that's how you'd want me to respond, yes. There's been some confusion for you see my roomate is.....

Glinda: Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and all together quite impossible to describe.

Elphaba: Blonde."
— Wicked the Musical

"Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Scout, you never really understand a man unless you step inside his shoes and walk around in them."
— Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

"And nobody in all of Oz no wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring me down!"
— Idina Menzel in Wicked

"Things happen for a reason, and in their own time."
— Idina Menzel

"You jump, I jump."
— -Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic)

"I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did. "
— Leonardo DiCaprio

"No day but today..."
— Jonathan Larson, Rent

"Fiyero:You think I'm really stupid, don't you?
Elphaba:No! Not really stupid.
Fiyero:Why is it every time I see you you're causing some sort of commotion?
Elphaba:I don't cause commotions, I am one!"
— Wicked the Musical

"Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July. "
— Mayor Vaughn (Jaws)

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
— Jaws

"A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist. "
— The Wizard (Wicked)

"Popular,
You're gonna be
Popular!
I'll teach you the proper ploys
when you talk to boys!
Little ways to flirt
and flounce!
I'll show you what shoes to wear,
how to fix your hair,
everything that really counts,
to be
POPULAR!!"
— Galinda from Wicked

"There were a great many jokes about the disaster (house falling on and killing Wicked Witch of the East), naturally. "You can't hide from desinty, that house had her name on it" "That Nessarose, she was giving such a good speech about religious lessons, she really brought down the house!" "Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes, but sometimes HOME DOESN'T LIKE IT." "What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house?" "One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches." "What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?""
— Gregory Maguire