More quotes by Nicholas Sparks, Message 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."
"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
"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."
"If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."