Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault, it just sees beyond it as well. ~Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Without dreams, life is a desert.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

Love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. In the end, if we have done it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom.

When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

It's amazing to me to see how so unexpectedly life can switch tracks to a new destination.

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

I've Never Cared Much For Mondays. If I were the king of the world, I'd have Mondays removed from the calendar. Of course the problem is that Tuesday would become the new Monday, which would defeat the purpose.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

In here you're no one, cheerleader. You remember that. You can't even walk unless I say so. If they let me, I could drain you like a bathtub and watch you die. So how about a cheer for me? Because in here, I'm the star quarterback. -Nichelle

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.