“You're lucky your mother died,' she said. I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?' Between sobs she said, 'Your mother… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault, it just sees… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that’s always making us work for love. It’s cause and effect. That’s the story of my childhood.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image