With 22 published novels and 11 of them turned into movies, there isn’t even the slightest chance to have never seen a glimpse of his books or the movies based on them.
Nicholas Sparks is one of the authors that knows exactly how to tell a love story in a way that sticks with you, digs a hole in your heart, and nests there for eternity.
His words, characters, and way of making us fall in love with his writings are unique, heart-warming, and simply changing.
A Walk To Remember was one of the first movies based on his novels that I ever watched. At the time, I had no idea it was actually a book, but I remember watching and re-watching for well over ten times in a matter of a week. The moment I realized that movie was based on a book, I eagerly searched through the web for all other movies based on Nicholas Spark’s books.
I’ve read quite a few of the books themselves, and I am (im)patiently waiting for the next adaptation of any of his novels.
But today, I share with you 100 Nicholas Sparks quotes from his novels, and I hope they manage to captivate your heart as well.
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Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Safe Haven
“I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”
“Nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”
“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”
“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.”
“Maybe I don’t want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.”
“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.”
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed…normal.”
“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.”
“Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”
Nights In Rodanthe
“I’ve been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I’m on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey’s not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That’s how I think of it now. I belong with you.”
“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be, and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”
“Making love, she’d always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitment, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring.”
The Notebook
“Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one, and in each of them, we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine, must always come together.”
“No matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”
“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.”
“I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. 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.”
“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this, I am sure.”
“It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”
“We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.”
“I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.”
“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”
“That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.”
“I been watchin’ you, workin’ day and night, slavin’ so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget.”
“Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that’s the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?”
“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, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
“Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”
“I’m sure you think that I don’t understand what you’re going through, but I do. It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.”
“I don’t know. I really don’t. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life.” She squeezed his hand. “And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you, and I always have.”
A Walk To Remember
“It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.”
“I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don’t understand what the message can be.”
“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school, we weren’t THAT mean.”
“You feel fine, and then, when your body can’t keep fighting, you don’t.”
“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn’t help but feel guilty, even though I hadn’t done anything wrong.”
Dear John
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.”
“If you come back, I’ll marry you. If you break your promise, you’ll break my heart.”
“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.”
“What’s your heart telling you to do? I don’t know. Maybe, you’re trying too hard to hear it.”
“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.”
“Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.”
“I’ll think about you every day. 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.”
“I’m sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.”
“That’s the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe in. Not everyone does. I’ve worked with soldiers on all sides of the political spectrum; I’ve met some who hated the army and others who wanted to make it a career. I’ve met geniuses and idiots, but when all is said and done, we do what we do for one another. For friendship. Not for country, not for patriotism, not because we’re programmed killing machines, but because of the guy next to you. You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.”
“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.”
“My dad always said that when you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just hard as what you’re going through.”
“It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.”
“I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds.”
“I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.”
Message in a Bottle
“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why – out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved – I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”
“It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.”
“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.”
“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.”
“She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.”
“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.”
The Best Of Me
“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be, and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it, or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”
“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.”
“Because you aren’t just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can’t imagine giving that up again.” He hesitated, searching for the right words. “You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
“I gave you the best of me, he’d told her once, and with every beat of her son’s heart, she knew he’d exactly done that.”
“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”
“Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She’d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn’t foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what – if questions that could never be answered.”
“The truth is, the world isn’t easy for any of us. It never has been, and it never will be.”
“Change isn’t always for the best.”
The Wedding
“It’s funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It’s like they think it won’t ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.”
The Choice
“I guess what I’m trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can’t take that away.”
“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.”
The Lucky One
“You should be kissed every day, every hour, every minute.”
“Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later, he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.”
“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
“It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good – and bad – to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.”
“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance – when you least expect it – sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”
The Longest Ride
“After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
“If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.”
“Trust people until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.”
The Last Song
“People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why.”
“There are guys who grow up thinking they’ll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they’re pathetic, and the latter, frankly, are hard to find.”
“When I was seventeen, I don’t think I even knew what love was. But when it’s right, it’s right, and you just know it.”
“Change not only was inevitable but usually brought its own rewards.”
“At times, he even admitted that he’d been more an observer of the world than a participant in it…”
At First Sight
“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not, it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”
“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon.”
The Choice
“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”
“You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.”
“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn’t always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people’s lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”
Three Weeks With My Brother
“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations and the value of hard work and persistence.”
“I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”
The Believer
“Love wasn’t possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.”
More Nocholas Sparks Quotes
“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”
“I’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”
“Everything around me makes me miss you.”
“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
“When we first met, I didn’t want to get involved with anyone. I didn’t have the time or energy, and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.”
“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”
“I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don’t.”
“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”
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