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

"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)

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."
— Nicholas Sparks (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."
— Nicholas Sparks

"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
— Michael Crichton

"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so."
— Michael Crichton (Prey)

"Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else."
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)

"Power is neither male or female."
— Michael Crichton (Disclosure)

""Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"
"Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.""
— Darren Shan (Hunters of the Dusk)

"Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. "
— Darren Shan (Sons of Destiny)

"A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future."
— Darren Shan (A Living Nightmare)