Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

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

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I'm a humble guy, okay?