# Quote — Nicholas Sparks, The Best Of Me

> "You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be. I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just...ordinary."

- 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: 171
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-best-of-me/you-have-to-understand

## 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)