419 Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

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.

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.

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

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn’t come from desire – at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Righteous indignation is the alibi of mobs and murderers.

Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams.

If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we’ll never be lost.

All women like chocolate, it’s like female catnip.

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.