In addition to giving life advice, Nicholas Sparks is perhaps most notorious for making your heart melt. His novels are filled with passion, heartbreak and love, and he always seems to know just how to get to you. Here are nine times the romance novelist stole your heart:

1. “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” – Dear John

2. “While I sleep, I dream of you, and when 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.” – Nights in Rodanthe

3. “The day my life changed forever…the day I first saw you.” – The Longest Ride

4. “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.” – The Notebook

5. “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.” – The Choice

6. “Being together isn’t about a honeymoon. It’s about the real you and me. 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. 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…You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.” – The Best of Me

7. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” – Nicholas Sparks

8. “You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.” – The Lucky One