Nicholas Sparks Film-Adaptations to Watch
When Romance Novels Come to Life
The best-selling author, Nicholas Sparks has been writing love stories that tear at our heartstrings since 1996.
Eleven of his best selling novels have been turned into films, each unique and bringing to life the stories we read on pages.
Take a look at Sparks film-adaption films, to watch!
(Warning: if you do decide to watch one or two, or them all, make sure to have a box of tissues beside you. You will bawl your eyes out!)
Year: 2002
Cast: Mandy Moore and Shane West
Setting: Beaufort, North Carolina
Featured song: 'Only Hope'
Running time: 101 minutes
Movie quote(s): "Love is like the wind. You can't see it, but you can feel it."
"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful."
Year: 2004
Cast: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams
Setting: South Carolina
Featured song: 'I'll be seeing you'
Run time: 123 minutes
Movie quote(s): "I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year. It wasn't over, it still isn't over."
"So it's not gonna be easy. Its gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you. Forever. You and me, everyday."
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, tis has always been enough."
Year: 2014
Cast: Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden
Setting: Oriental, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Run time: 1 hour 58 minutes
Movie quote: "You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved. And, in the end, nothing else really matters."
"You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same."
Year: 2013
Cast: Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel
Setting: New Bern, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Run time: 115 minutes
Movie quote: "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."
"I promise there's no safer place in the world than with me."
Year: 2010
Cast: Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth
Setting: Wilmingtn, North Carolina
Featured Song: 'When I Look at You'
Runtime: 107 minutes
Movie quote: "Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and d the best we can, and hope this fragile thing survives, against all odds."
"Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.
Year: 1999
Cast: Robin Penn and Kevin Costner
Setting: Carolina
Feature song: N/A
Runtime: 107 minutes
Movie quote: "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."
Year: 2015
Cast: Scott Eastwood and Britt Robertson
Setting: Black Mountain, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Runtime: 2 hours and 19 minutes
Movie quote: "The only thing I know for sure is if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work."
"I don't know what the future holds but I know this; no future without you."
Year: 2008
Cast: Diane Lane and Richard Gere
Setting: Rodanthe, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Runtime: 2 hours and 9 minutes
Movie quote: "While I sleep, I dream of you and the I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side and my days with your heart."
"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
Year: 2010
Cast: Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried
Setting: Wilmington, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour and 48 minutes
Movie quote:"I finally understood what true love meant. Love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, that happens with first love, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
"Two weeks together; two weeks. That's all it Tok for me o fall in love with you. But now we have one year apart. But whats one year apart after two weeks like that together."
Year: 2016
Cast: 1 hour and 51 minutes
Setting: Beautfort, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Runtime: Teresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker
Movie quote: "Life is about what you decide from one moment to the next."
"The secret to life is making the right choices."
Year: 2012
Cast: Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling
Setting: Hampton, North Carolina
Featured song: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour and 41 minutes
Movie quote: "Everyone has their own destiny. Not everyone makes the choice to follow it. And I'm lucky I did."
"Sometimes finding the light means passing through the deepest darkness."
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