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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

“A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Variant: I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
Source: The Notebook

“Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Variant: you might not understand but i gave you the best of me...
Source: The Best of Me

“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

“If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“That’s a wonderful story.”

“He was a wonderful man. And 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

Variant: He was a wonderful man. And 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.
Source: The Lucky One

“When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.”

Nicholas Sparks

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable…”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out.
First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
Source: A Walk to Remember

“And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“Oh, Garrett, who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Catherine Blake, Chapter 13, p. 316
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: The Rescue

“The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“How can I describe how much I love you?
Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I
sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.”

Nicholas Sparks book See Me

Source: See Me

“And in your smile, I will live forever”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish, cold…. the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I love you, Elizabeth… and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“How's it hangin' Harry?
I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Well, you can't have everything.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook