Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.

Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn't pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

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

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

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

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

They say that time heals all wounds. But even as wounds heal they leave scars, token reminders of the pain.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Life is not yours to take.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.