Message in a Bottle

by Nicholas Sparks

if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

One of the things I’ve learned in my life is that sometimes you’ve got to take a chance.

Love is love, no matter how old you are, and I knew that if I gave you enough time, you’d come back to me.”

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

I’d like to see someone who learned that it’s okay to go on, that it’s okay to find someone that can make you happy.

he had never questioned whether he and Catherine were a team. Never once did he question the future with her, never once did it enter his mind that either one of them wouldn’t sacrifice everything for the other.

There was something long-term in the way they interacted with each other, something that reminded him that they would always be together.

if you’re going to get married, then you’d better be doing it for the right reasons. Marriage is between two people, not three. And it’s not fair to her if you go into it otherwise.”

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. You, my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny.