# Quote — Nicholas Sparks, The Best Of Me

> But trust me when I say that memories are funny things. Sometimes they're real, but other times they change into what we want them to be... But like I said, she's hurting, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that people in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should... And if it somehow doesn't work out between you, then you've got to understand that you can't look back anymore. It'll destroy you in the end, and destroy her as well. Neither one of you can keep living with regret, because it drains the life right out of you, and the very idea is enough to break my heart.

- Author: [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md)
- Book: [The Best Of Me](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me.md)
- Page: 218
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/but-trust-me-when

## More from this book

> "...I said everything that matters... Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you."

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/i-said-everything.md)

> ...the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/the-grass-isnt.md)

> ...he had the sense that they were both lonely, albeit in different ways. He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/he-had-the.md)