The Best of Me is a romance novel written by Nicholas Sparks.
It was published in year 2011 and depicts the tale of Dawson and Amanda, two old high school sweethearts who meet after many years apart.
The book was warmly reviewed and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.
Here is an amazing collection of quotes from The Best of Me novel.
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The Best of Me Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“I gave you the best of me.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“The truth is, the world isn’t easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn’t. One person always loves more deeply than the other.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Because you aren’t just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can’t imagine giving that up again.” He hesitated searching for the right words. “You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“You’ll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you’ll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
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Best The Best of Me Quotes
“She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.” ~ 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 greenest where it’s watered” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“That’s why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn’t constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered– not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn’t changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
Quotes from The Best of Me
“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Love, after all, always says more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“There’s a lot of magic between you, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion;…love wasn’t enough.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“She loved the man he’d been, and she loved the man she knew he could be, but here and now…she felt sad and alone, and she couldn’t help wondering how here life had come to this.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
Top The Best of Me Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend, and trust is built a single moment at a time.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“I’ve never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made. It didn’t” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Change isn’t always for the best.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“They were inlove, but they hadn’t been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
Famous The Best of Me Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
“There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“You have the Best Of Me….” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“It’s not such a bad thing. Change isn’t always for the best.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“What the younger generation didn’t understand was that the grass was greenest where it’s watered..” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“I gave you the best of me, he’d told her once, and with every beat of her son’s heart, she knew he’d exactly done that.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“I don’t know that I’ve ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She’d believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn’t foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
Popular The Best of Me Quotes
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend, and trust is built a single moment at a time. Women, she sometimes thought, had a tendency to see what they wanted to see.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“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” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“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.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
“Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.” ~ Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me).
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