The Notebook is a popular 1996 romantic novel and is written by Nicholas Sparks.
The Notebook novel tells the story of two people – Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson, who spend a summer together in New Bern but do not see one other again for 14 years.
The book delves into subjects such as love, passion, and the power of memories.
The novel was made into a successful film, which was released in 2004.
Let’s dive into some of the greatest quotes from The Notebook novel.
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The Notebook Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I know it can’t be the same between us, but that doesn’t change the way I felt about you then.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Other Book Quotes: The Lorax Quotes by Dr. Seuss and The Four Loves Quotes by C.S. Lewis
Best The Notebook Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“A person can get used to anything if given enough time.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Say I’m a bird” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i’m almost there.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“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).
“It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Every great love starts with a great story…” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I’m not saying it because I’m sweet. I’m saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Quotes from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
“Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“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 with out speaking. This is the great paradox.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I been watchin’ you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Famous The Notebook Quotes
“What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.” ~ 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).
“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).
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I don’t want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Popular The Notebook Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“My daddy used to tell me ‘the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin’ never goes away. This girl you been tellin’ me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she’ll stay with you forever.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Early on, he’d learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn’t be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I’d turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Like her father, he wasn’t comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Emotional The Notebook Quotes
“No matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I lost you once, I think I can do it again.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream. Allie” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“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).
“I can’t live my life happily knowing you’re with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it’s too beautiful to just throw it away.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don’t want you to ever forget that.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish, cold…. the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
Great The Notebook Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.” ~ 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).
“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. 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).
“You are, and always have been, my dream.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for a list of questions I definitely want answered after I’m gone.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“I know what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“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).
“I’ll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I’ll be that.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
“Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook).
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