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Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. His novels feature stories of tragic love with happy endings.

Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, The Passing, in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding, which sold approximately 50,000 copies in its first year. In 1993, Sparks wrote his breakthrough novel The Notebook in his spare time while selling pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, his novel was discovered by the literary agent Theresa Park, who offered to represent him. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the New York Times best-seller list in its first week. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. December 1965  •  Other names Nicholas Spark
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Nicholas Sparks Quotes

“Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line.
Jamie: OK…
Landon: You're in two places at once.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Deanna's voice softened. "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 book Message in a Bottle

"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

“I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”

Nicholas Sparks

Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

“Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One

“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Denial is an ugly thing.”

Nicholas Sparks

"I'm not in denial." "See what I mean? That's denial." Micah and Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 5, p. 60
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

“I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

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

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 22, p. 258-259
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

“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 book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“‎When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“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 for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Source: At First Sight

“I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

“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 book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Jo, Chapter 25, p. 203
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)

“You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“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 book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions."

Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Unless you had a popular video on YouTube
or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“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 book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved… and in the end, nothing else really matters.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Variant: What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
Source: The Wedding