Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

Regret is a useless emotion: it's like brushing your teeth after you find a cavity.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

voluptuous. They kept switching positions as they

It's because the very core of their identity is called into question. Whether they're guilty or not makes almost no difference. That's just the way we're wired.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

To avoid love because of the possibility of losing it is like poisoning ourselves to avoid being murdered. Tabula

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.

There's no way they'll find us now," Ostin said. Just then my phone rang. Everyone turned to look at me as I answered. "Hello." "Get ready, Michael," the voice said. "The Elgen are here.

Earlier today Ian and I sneaked over to take a look at it.

All things are possible with God." "And if there is no God?" Enele turned back. "Then we're just dust and beasts, and what does it matter?

too late, so Ostin came with us. As we were leaving the hotel

No. I mean, if I were going by the book, I should have cited him, but sometimes you got to go by the spirit of the law. He fought for our country.

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

Wasted dreams, I suppose." "I don't think there's such a thing," Justin said. "Dreams have value

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do. It was nice to be reminded of all I had to be grateful for.

It's a shame people don't have the advantage of knowing when their time's up..They would stop trading time for trinkets –

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you

We never know what horrific and powerful currents run beneath the seemingly calm surface of another's life.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Grief is the truest evidence of love. And we should always be grateful to have something to love, even if it means that we have to lose it.