A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks, 1999
Romance Young adultContemporary fiction
A small-town troublemaker falls for the minister's daughter, and one ordinary year becomes the measure of his life.
Feels like nostalgia, tenderness and serenity. About society, ambition and love.
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The kiss that matters is rarely the one the movies would film.
It wasn’t that long, and it certainly wasn’t the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever. Nicholas Sparks.A Walk to Remember was Nicholas Sparks's third novel, after The Notebook and Message in a Bottle; he wrote it while living in North Carolina.
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Questions readers ask
- What is A Walk to Remember like?
- Feels like nostalgia, tenderness and serenity. About society, ambition and love.
- What should I read after A Walk to Remember?
- If you liked A Walk to Remember, try Icebreaker (Hannah Grace), The Pact (Jodi Picoult) and Always and Forever, Lara Jean (Jenny Han).
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The moment an eating contest becomes a love language.
You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I’ve never been more in love with you.
Icebreaker · Hannah Grace
The problem with wanting everything to stay exactly as it is.
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn’t figure out how to get from point A to point B.
The Pact · Jodi Picoult
The lunch-table details that will become the whole of a year.
I have a feeling that when I’m Stormy’s age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter’s head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.
Always and Forever, Lara Jean · Jenny Han
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