Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

Some of those demonstrations were over the Vietnam War. Some were over racial or gender inequality.

On the calendar, all the days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

Regret is a useless emotion.

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Unfortunately, most women's closets are more organized than their finances.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

The people in our lives are like cards in a deck. At different times we draw, hold, and discard, but, in the end, we don't really know the cards' value until life calls our hand.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Vamos a cortar ese güero.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

If I thought my previous employer ran a sweatshop, it was an afternoon tea party compared to being self-employed.

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.

Humans waste far too much time worrying about things that will never befall them. It's my experience that the greatest tragedies are the ones that don't even cross our minds—the events that blindside us on a Friday afternoon when we're wondering how to spend our weekend.

Trust is something that's built over time, but it takes faith to make that leap. [Justin Ek)

I still think the greatest hurt isn't to lose love, it's the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. —Thea Dorn

We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.

We're two broken people, aren't we?' [Richelle Bach] He [Justin Ek] nodded. 'That's okay. Broken things usually fit better together.