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.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

About Nicholas Sparks

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Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He has published 24 novels, 16 of which are New York Times bestsellers, and two works of nonfiction, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide (92 million in the U.S. alone) in more than 50...

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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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Change isn't always for the best.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That's never happened to me before, and I'm not sure it'll ever happen again. I've never been in love with anyone before you came along—not real love anyway… not like this. And I'd be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Choice

I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

—Nicholas Sparks in A Walk to Remember

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All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Until Trevor

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Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one's nerves—which is the same thing nowadays.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we’re both thinking the same thing.

—Laurie Faria Stolarz in White Is for Magic

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Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.

—C.K. Kelly Martin in I Know It’s Over

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