“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”

—  Nicholas Sparks, book Safe Haven

Katie, Chapter 29, p. 236
Variant: Maybe I’d like to
be defined by what I am.
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)

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