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This reads as a portrait of longing so strong it keeps reaching past reason. It can be taken to mean that absence changes the whole world, until even strangers in a crowd become stand-ins for the person who is missing. It lands in a breakup, separation, or bereavement, when the mind keeps searching for what is no longer there.
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About Nicholas Sparks
American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer
Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is known for bestselling popular fiction, and for work that has reached a wide international audience. He has 289 quotes on the site. He has published 24 novels and two works of nonfiction. Sixteen of the novels became New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 130 million copies worldwide in more than 50 languages. Several of his works, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle, were adapted into feature films, along with eight other books.
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Books by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook
2004
At First Sight
2006
The Best of Me
2012
Two by Two
2016
Dear John
2006