Safe Haven

by Nicholas Sparks

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives. But sometimes…”

The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

“That’s what courage is. If she weren’t scared, she wouldn’t need courage in the first place. I admire what she did.”

giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

Everyone has a past, but that’s just it—it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it. Besides, I never knew that person. The person I’ve come to know is the one I want to get to know even better.”

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

“I’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”

There are dreams that visit us and leave us fulfilled upon waking, there are dreams that make life worth living. You, my sweet husband, are that dream,

Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Jo, she suddenly realized, had never been there at all.

I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

I used to lay them in my lap and stare at them while they slept.

Sometimes, while they were dreaming, their little fists would curl around my finger, and I can remember thinking that I’d never experienced a purer form of joy.

It wasn’t until I had children that I really understood what love meant.

I don’t know how to explain it and I don’t know that I need to.

with them, help them grow into kind, independent adults. What you give them in love, they’ll return tenfold in time,