Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

when faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

Kids don't come with owner's manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they're gone.

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.

There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

Vendes muy bien. Puedes trabajar en el carro de frutas de mi mamá.

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

One day McKenna got hot enough

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

Jade Dragon will go.

Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It's too late, it's too late. You can't come back.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?