‘Dear John’ is a 2007 romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks.
The story revolves on John Tyree, a young soldier who falls in love with Savannah Curtis, a college student.
The book delves into issues of love, loss, and the challenges of long-distance relationships.
Let’s explore some of the best quotes from Dear John novel.
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Dear John Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“The key to happiness was achievable dreams.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’m sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I’d somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It’ll be hard, but life moves fast-we’ll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
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Quotes from Dear John
“Love means to see the one you love happy” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’m not perfect, either. In the end, it’s only God’s judgement that matters, and I’ve learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger’s lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It doesn’t sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it’s possible, I know it’s not going to happen” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“But…as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse – a lot worse – but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
Best Dear John Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“There are memories for both of us, of course, but I’ve learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween…” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Before I started (college), that’s the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject…his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’ve learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. – John Tyree” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It’s your eyes. They’re … more serious than they used to be. Like they’ve seen things they shouldn’t have.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“And all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
Famous Dear John Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“You’re a hero and a gentleman, you’re kind and honest, but more than that, you’re the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’m going to marry you one day, you know.” “Is that a promise?” “If you want it to be.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren’t always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Everything around me makes me miss you.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“True love means that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It’s weird, it’s different, but it’s true.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
Great Dear John Quotes
“Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“That life isn’t fair?” Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“My dad always said that when you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just hard as what you’re going through” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
Insightful Dear John Quotes
“If you come back; I’ll marry you. If you break your promise, you’ll break my heart” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“When a person sets a thing in motion, there’s a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
Important Dear John Quotes
“It’s a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock. Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all…” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we’re together again.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“I’ll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there’ll come a time when you don’t feel the same way, that you’ll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“No matter where it is in the sky… No matter where you are in the world… the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me,” I began. “Meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn’t easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
“Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed…It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith…the saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (quote from Dear John).
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