Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.