# Quote — Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

> "You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well."

- Author: [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md)
- Book: [The Longest Ride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-longest-ride.md)
- Page: 267
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Longest_Ride_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-longest-ride/you-are-a-smart

## More from this book

> A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-longest-ride/a-truth-emerges.md)

> [Written on back of photograph of Ruth and Daniel]
>
> "Ruth LevinsonThird grade teacher.She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up.I can even change the world."

p. 335 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-longest-ride/written-on-back.md)

> "I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

p. 326 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-longest-ride/i-wish-i-had.md)