Quotes by "Richard Paul Evans"

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to 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 sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty and 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 and time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

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.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

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

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.

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

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

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

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.