419 Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

Hatch never forgives and he never forgets,” Zeus said. “He’s like an elephant with anger management issues.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn’t be happy because I wasn’t grateful and I wasn’t grateful because I wasn’t allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

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.

The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.

Leah taught me that 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.

If a problem has a solution, to worry is no use, for in the end it will be solved. If a problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it cannot be solved.

Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.