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That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

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Nicholas Sparks
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Athletics Competitor
Film Producer
Novelist
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Taekwondo Athlete
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Omaha
Nebraska
Nicholas Charles Sparks
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Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.” “No, I don’t,” Thibault began. “Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?
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If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.
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I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
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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.
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because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
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I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last
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Please... don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family... I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no
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Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.
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That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
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In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
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In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
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Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
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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.
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Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
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If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo
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It’s never too late to do the right thing.
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without music he felt aimless and adrift.
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She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.
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