Letter In A Bottle Quotes:

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1998.

topic: Song, Ocean, Singing, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Grateful, Loss, Journey, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Night, Way, Return, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

- Gene Tierney

source: "Self-portrait".

topic: Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.52, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Girl, Real, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.99, Hachette UK

topic: Live Life, Important, Ambitious, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

- Charles Simic

topic: Bottles, Ships, Lighthouse, Letter In A Bottle, Empty Bottles

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.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Blow, Destiny, Wind, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Hurt, Destiny, Realizing, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Regret, Feelings, Might, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.19, Hachette UK

topic: Anger, Sadness, Special, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.166, Hachette UK

topic: Marriage, Real, Commitment, Letter In A Bottle, Passage Of Time

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love Is, Matter, Enough Time, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.25, Hachette UK

topic: Heart, Watches, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love You, Arms, Protect, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

- Kevin J. Anderson

topic: Country, Ocean, Land, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Sleep, Car, Purpose, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Missing Someone, Real, Sparking, Message In A Bottle

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Change, People, Rolling, Impermanence, Message In A Bottle

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Grief, Grieving, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Disappointment, Kids, Parenting, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, People, Special, Special Someone, Message In A Bottle

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Like You, Make You Happy, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.164, Hachette UK

topic: Relationship, Believe, Reality, Theresa, Message In A Bottle

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 13, 2011

topic: Love, Thank You, Memories, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love You, Arms, Return, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

- Paul Celan

topic: Strong, Heart, Reality, Letter In A Bottle, Shoreline