# Quote — Nicholas Sparks, The Best Of Me

> ...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.

- 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: 103
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/the-grass-isnt

## 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)

> ...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)

> In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were,...

p. 94 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/in-the-end.md)