Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

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.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

There's no such thing as privacy with Ian," Taylor said. "I think of that every time I shower," Nichelle said. "It doesn't matter if you're showering," I said. "He can see through your clothes, anyway." "That makes me feel a lot better," Nichelle said sardonically.

Ostin suddenly nodded. "Oh, I get it. It's payback. Let her stew in her own juices. Awesome.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.