Quotes By Author: Richard Paul Evans

“We chain ourselves to those we don’t forgive.”

“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.”

“The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it.Alan Christensen’s diary”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentamdo coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor.” A Promessa.”

“Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips.Believe as if your life depended on it… for indeed it does.”

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage”

“Chocolate is God’s apology for brocolli”

“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.”