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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

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 13, p. 205
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
Context: In her new, more mature incarnation, she embraced the idea that maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark in the world.

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?"

"We weren't," he said. "We were in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Jane Lewis, Chapter 8, p. 130
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

“I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“It's your eyes. They're… more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: The Rescue

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road

Jonah Ryan, Chapter 37, p. 336
Variant: I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

“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”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

“As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we’ll find a way to make it work.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing…
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers
left from early fires,
… shall duly flame again”

Nicholas Sparks

“Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

Nicholas Sparks

“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that… they say anything's possible, right?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Where do I go from here?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Men like women who know how to be subtle.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life.”

Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road

Charlie Curtis, Chapter 37, p. 339
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)