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Be prepared for a lump in the throat and tissues as you wipe a stray teardrop while you read these powerful and magical quotes and poems about true love from the book The Notebook, written by Nicholas Sparks.

1. Noah on his life – I suppose it has most resembled a blue-chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time.

2. 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 life will soon be forgotten but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

3. Perfect Love does that to a person, it changes you forever.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. My daddy used to tell me that the first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, and the feeling never goes away.

7. It’s just that our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. –Allie’s mother’s not so popular advice to her daughter.

8. 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.

9. Poetry, she thought,  wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

10. 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. 

11. Allie’s expectations of her romantic relationship – She wanted something else, something different, something more. she wanted passion and romance perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

12. 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. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.

13. 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 as long as I have.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

17. 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. 

18. Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.

19. Dusk, I realized, 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 always be together, yet forever apart? I know the answer now. I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart."

20. Silence is pure. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

21. It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

22. I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days for falling in love.

23. The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

24. And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

25. 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. 

26. Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

27. I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.

28. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.