Richard Paul Evans Quotes - Page 7

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 suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

Life is not yours to take.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

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

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

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.

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.