10 great reasons The Notebook should get your vote for World Book Night 2012

Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Sphere

To celebrate the publication of the first ever UK edition of The Notebook to feature the absolutely ICONIC film poster artwork and to highlight the many reasons why The Notebook should make it into the World Book Night Top 100 must reads, we have been hard at work compiling our top 10 favourite quotes from the book and film. The below list is what we have come up with, it is in no particular order, and includes a few suggestions from you!

Thanks to everyone who submitted their favourite quote. And don’t forget you still have two days left to add The Notebook to your World Book Night 2012 favourites. Click here to add The Notebook to your list now, here to read a first chapter excerpt or here and here to read the other great World Book Night/ Notebook articles including an exclusive from Nicholas Sparks himself!

The Notebook film tie-in edition is available from all good book shops now!

The Sphere Top 10 Quotes from The Notebook

1. '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 for me, that has always been enough.'

2. 'You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. You have something inside you, Noah, something beautiful and strong. Kindness . . .'

3. 'The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. . . . I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.'

4. 'Summer romances . . . are shooting stars; spectacular moments of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash, they're gone.'

5. 'I want all of you, forever.'

6. 'Together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.'

7. 'There's something about today. Maybe it's a day for a miracle.'

8. 'That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not leaving her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home. '

9. 'Do you think our love, can take us away together?' 'I think our love can do anything we want it to.'

10. 'Behind every great love is a great story'