A Walk to Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

honey blond hair and soft blue eyes,

I

saw Mrs. Hastings,

“You have to promise that you won’t fall in love with me.” I knew she was kidding by the way she laughed, and I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.

how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.

“Sometimes, I reckon.”

guess that my feelings for Jamie were making my brain work a little faster than usual.

was without a doubt the strangest thing I’d ever been through. Not only was she a girl that I’d never thought about before this year—even though we’d grown up together—but there was something different in the whole way my feelings for her had unfolded.

“You can’t be in love with me, Landon,”

“Because,” she finally said softly, “I’m very sick, Landon.”

“I’m

dying, Landon.”

a walk

to remember.